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9 Oct 2018, 6:34 am by Ryan J. Farrick
A 2015 lawsuit alleging “grossly deficient” medical care at Louisiana State Penitentiary is heading to trial Tuesday. [read post]
1 Aug 2015, 2:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Grace Before Dying is an award-winning photographic documentary by Lori Waselchuk that chronicles the prisoner-run hospice program at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in Angola. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 7:42 am by Benjamin Minegar
Authorities first moved Woodfox to isolation in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and later to "closed-cell restriction" at state jails. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 10:50 pm
Officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have agreed to remove religious inscriptions from a monument that stands at the prison's gate . [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 12:55 am
Catholic prisoners on death row at Louisiana's maximum-security state penitentiary at Angola will now have an opportunity to celebrate mass. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 6:26 am by Howard Friedman
The New York Times today reports on a Southern Baptist Bible College that operates inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]
8 May 2020, 10:50 am by Dani Selby
Darrill Guitroz, Darrill Henry’s son, waits outside the Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola prison) for his father on May 7, 2020. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 10:17 am by Steve Hall
It stated that Louisiana had not met the requirements of its own Administrative Procedures Act in creating guidelines for execution by lethal injection. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 11:11 am
FRANCISVILLE - West Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a Louisiana State Penitentiary social worker on one count of aggravated rape involving an inmate. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:06 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
One of the most outspoken people realizing that many of these elderly folks don't need to be locked up is Burl Cain — the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest prison in the state. [read post]
18 Oct 2018, 2:15 pm
But doctors at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as “Angola,” repeatedly dismissed his medical complaints. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 4:20 pm
This afternoon, Innocence Project client Henry James walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola a free man for the first time in three decades. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 6:11 am by brian
One of the most outspoken people realizing that many of these elderly folks don't need to be locked up is Burl Cain — the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary, the largest prison in the state. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 6:42 am
Mother Jones For the better part of four decades, Victory Wallace, 70, has made a monthly trip from New Orleans to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola to visit her brother Herman, who just turned 68. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 2:52 pm by Rekha Arulanantham
We worked on that bill with unlikely allies – Burl Cain (the warden of Angola State Penitentiary) and the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 8:05 am
Saturday marks the fourth anniversary of Rickie Johnson's exoneration from Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana. [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
New from the University of Minnesota Press: Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary, by Dennis Childs (University of California, San Diego). [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 4:00 am by Berniard Law Firm
Washington was a licensed practical nurse for the Louisiana State Penitentiary from 2001 to 2011. [read post]
30 May 2012, 9:02 am by Rekha Arulanantham
We've forged an unlikely alliance with Burl Cain, the warden of Louisiana's largest and most famous prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, to reduce the number of nonviolent inmates. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 10:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Leading historian of Southern history Jeff Forret meticulously narrates the ordeals of twenty-seven Black Virginians, whose enslavement was compounded by convictions and whose transport to Louisiana at the hands of a Washington, DC slave trader led to a dozen years each in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [read post]