I never thought I'd go to prison for fishing, but I did. The front gate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is where the author and his friends were searched. On May 8, 1989, I was ...

As we drove up a deserted Highway 66 to the prison—Angola is the actual end of the line; the highway stops at the prison’s front gate—Landrieu had two things to tell me.

The front gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary. (Photo courtesy of the author) ... The Angola Prison Rodeo is the most well-known feature of life at Louisiana State Penitentiary.

The prison population was graying, and not just at Angola. According to federal statistics , from 1991 to 2021, the percentage of state and federal inmates 55 and older grew from 3% to 15%.

Now, five of the eight state prison facilities in Louisiana have inmate volunteer hospice programs. Nationwide, about 75 to 80 hospice programs operate behind bars. "Most are pretty basic," said Cordt ...

These young people, predominantly Black, have been placed in the prison’s old death row, tucked in behind the razor wire near its front gates. I am intimately familiar with Angola’s old death row.

Documentary about Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola available to stream on Paramount+ Meredith G. White, Shreveport Times Wed, July 19, 2023 at 8:38 PM UTC ...

An entrance gate at Louisiana State Penitentiary drivers pass through in order to get to the Angola Prison Rodeo in Angola, Louisiana, on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Drew Hawkins / Gulf States Newsroom ...