A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

Reformists have spent the past week arguing that Louisiana’s largest prison violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights by assigning them to the Angola Farm Line.

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola held a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...

After hard work in the sun on the Farm Line, he’d fall asleep, only to be visited by nightmares, Chadarius Morehead testified ...

A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to keep heat safety measures in place another 90 days for field workers at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. U ...

Advocacy groups involved in a federal lawsuit over prison labor at Angola plan a press conference to discuss dangerous work ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a ...