BATON ROUGE, La. — Sixty-four inmates at Louisiana's most notorious prison earned seminary degrees to preach the gospel within the barbed wire topped walls of Louisiana State Penitentiary and other ...

Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining ...

I got lucky last summer when I got my time … The words come naturally to Charles Neville, the memory as strong as when he was an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary here. … my partner got a ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has been called "the Alcatraz of the South." For most of its 110-year history, its name has been... The Music of Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary It's ...

Kirk Franklin is one of the most adored figures in gospel music, thanks to his willingness to welcome secular artists into the genre. In addition to other gospel elites, Franklin has worked with the ...