Por: WPLG Local 10 Nation September 17, 2023
BATON ROUGE, La. – Men incarcerated at Louisiana State Penitentiary filed a class-action lawsuit Saturday, contending they have been forced to work in the prison’s fields for little or no pay, even when temperatures soar past 100 degrees. They described the conditions as cruel, degrading and often dangerous.The men, most of whom are Black, work on the farm of the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison known as Angola -- the site of a former... + full article
The Daily Beast USA Nation September 09, 2023
Nearly a year after being incarcerated in the country’s largest maximum-security adult prison—including being held in solitary confinement and placed in death row cells, a federal judge has ordered state officials to finally transfer youth detainees from the , a former... + más
Our Views: The controversial Angola Plan for youth has been implemented. Let’s keep it short. | The Advocate
Federal judge won't block plan to put teens at Angola: 'Untenable must yield to the intolerable' | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime March 22, 2023
Several civil rights groups asked the U.S. Department of Education this week to investigate whether youths incarcerated at the new juvenile lockup at Angola are receiving adequate educational opportunities.Last year, amid worsening problems at a , Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards... + más
Meet the 'Love After Lockup' couples joining Season 4 | Newsweek
Teens from youth facilities statewide may end up at Angola unit, Louisiana official says | The Advocate
The Daily Beast USA Politics October 31, 2022
Louisiana has done it. They have moved young people into one of the most notorious adult prisons in the United States.In July, announced that two dozen young people from Bridge City Center for Youth—a outside of New Orleans operated by the state’s Office of Juvenile Justice... + más
SSA Announces New 2023 Maximum Social Security Benefit | Forbes
New U.S. prisons chief pledges truth, reform for ailing system | Portland Press Herald
The Advocate USA Opinion October 23, 2022
As last week started, officials from the Office of Juvenile Justice took some journalists on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. The facility, where up to 24 of what officials believe are the state’s most violent teenagers can stay, is just inside the... + más
Youth advocate says juveniles fearful as they 'live under the threat' of being sent to Angola | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime September 24, 2022
A federal judge says Louisiana’s to the State Penitentiary at Angola is “untenable” and disturbing.But the judge denied a request to immediately halt the plan, saying that, despite of activists, the youths' families and a cohort of lawyers, moving teens deemed... + más
James Gill: Plan to house juvenile offenders at Angola has bleeding hearts in a tizzy | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Crime September 20, 2022
When youths held at Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish learned that , their attorneys reported the teens started to panic. Youths began to call both the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights and their parents to assure their families they hadn't been... + más
Feds say Louisiana's plan to put teens in Angola is 'problematic,' call for other solutions | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Opinion September 17, 2022
You can see why the plan to rehouse a bunch of on the grounds of the Angola state pen put so many bleeding hearts in a tizzy.Just think of the psychological trauma caused by proximity to such desperate specimens. The adult inmates must have been trembling in their boots. Those... + más
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