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 ...

Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson extended protections through mid-August for the Farm Line, incarcerated men working in extreme heat at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. “It is ...

Incarcerated men forced to work the fields on the “Farm Line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are once again urging a federal judge to force the state Department of Public Safety and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to stay part of an order from a lower court that would require the state to make a plan to better protect inmates ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the federal court district the suit was initially filed in. We apologize for the error. BATON ROUGE, La ...

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The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge has ordered the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola to immediately improve conditions for some inmates required to work as farm laborers while a lawsuit claiming ...