Louisiana State Penitentiary partnered with God Behind Bars to host a Daddy Daughter dance for incarcerated fathers and their ...

BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First) — For the first time ever, a dance involving inmates and their daughters took place inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary. 29 inmates participated in the dance ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary held its first ever ‘Father Daughter Dance’ this month. Prisoners reunited with their ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — The last inmate of a group known as the "Angola Three" pleaded no contest Friday to manslaughter in the 1972 death of a prison guard and was released after more than four ...

Gary Tyler, 67, spent more than four decades in one of the most notorious prisons in the country for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1974, Tyler was one of a group of Black students bused into a formerly ...

New Orleans is ready to welcome a new clerk of court. Calvin Duncan, who won in a landslide last week, served nearly three decades in Louisiana's notorious Angola Penitentiary for a crime he did not ...

"Jailhouse Lawyer," by Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull, Penguin Press, 385 pages Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull's "Jailhouse Lawyer" is a direct account of Louisiana incarceration and injustice, yet its ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his conviction was overturned earlier this year. Jimmie Duncan had originally ...

At least 13 inmates were found dead Sunday at a southern Ecuadorian prison ravaged by violence in recent months, the ...

QUITO, Ecuador -- Clashes that erupted among prisoners in one of Ecuador's most notorious prisons left 13 inmates dead, ...

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