Kentrell Parker, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, in a photograph held by his mother, Janice Parker. The 45-year-old has been bedridden since an injury in a prison football ...

A 2015 lawsuit by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and a federal judge’s opinion last year detailed evidence of extensive failures in the prison’s medical care.

Mississippi saw the biggest spike in its prison population, with numbers swelling by 14.3 percent. In 2022, the state incarcerated 2,470 more people than it did in 2021—19,802 compared to 17,332.

Since a wave of midcentury reforms to prisons, the number of people subjected to their brutal conditions has risen alongside global temperatures.When Angola was reformed in 1955, its population ...

Louisiana's most notorious prison has a new warden who is a familiar face. Darrel Vannoy is returning Nov. 25 to lead the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola after spending the past three years ...

Kentrell Parker, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, in a photograph held by his mother, Janice Parker. The 45-year-old has been bedridden since an injury in a prison football ...