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

Louisiana's maximum-security prison, known as Angola, recently went viral for videos capturing the prison's first ever father ...

A new feature of the family-reentry program lets incarcerated fathers dance with daughters they rarely get to see ...

Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter's life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed ...

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

I am reaching out to bring to your attention serious allegations regarding unsafe conditions at High Desert State Prison. Families of inmates report that certain correctional officers have threatened ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — An issue with the HVAC system led to an evacuation Sunday night at the Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe. KOB 4 confirmed fire crews responded to an issue with smoke from the ...

A HVAC issue at the New Mexico State Penitentiary caused precautionary evacuations Sunday night, Nov. 16. Officials say the system malfunctioned causing smoke in the housing unitsThe local fire ...

Now is the time for Gov. Hochul to close Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison so beset by tragedy and dysfunction that keeping it open would cause more harm than good. Last week, Imam Abdallah ...

After living 42 years wrongfully incarcerated in the Angola State Penitentiary, Gary Tyler has spent the past decade living and working as an artist and advocate in Los Angeles. His newest exhibition ...

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