“Today we're here at this legendary Angola prison to announce an agreement between the United States of America and the great state of Louisiana. There has never been an agreement like this one before ...

Federal officials say they want to send a message, and they chose one of the most notorious prisons in the United States to deliver it. On Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison, could soon house immigrant detainees for the Trump administration. Plans call for Angola to reopen an unused ...

Read full article: City employee who was placed on leave after posting video about ICE arrests to resume duties, mayor’s office says ANGOLA, La. – Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Gov. Jeff Landry wants to house the "worst of the worst" criminal undocumented immigrants in the country in Louisiana. Landry has been developing plans to hold hundreds of federal ...

(Bloomberg) -- On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...