Angola prison workers make between 2 and 40 cents an hour. They also have a controversial outlet for recreation and to vend their wares at market rate: a rodeo. Incarcerated individuals ...

Woodfox continues to maintain his innocence in the death of Brent Miller, a prison guard killed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 1972. “Although I was looking forward to proving ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo is the only rodeo in the country where incarcerated men compete in bull riding, buck breaking and other controversial, dangerous events. The Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew ...

Photos provided by Daniella Zalcman. For over 10 months, Louisiana kids have been held in Angola, nicknamed for the former slave plantation on which the prison was built, and a former death row prison ...

Angola is the largest maximum-security prison in the country. It sits on former plantation land where Black people were forced to pick cotton before the Civil War, and in recent decades ...

Mr. Duncan is an expert in post-conviction law and had previously been incarcerated at Angola prison in Louisiana, and was exonerated in 2021. Mr. Stockton is a producer with Opinion Video.

“Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited,” which would have ended forced labor at the infamous prison, officially called the Louisiana State Penitentiary but commonly known as Angola ...