A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to keep heat safety measures in place another 90 days for field workers at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. U ...

Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson extended protections through mid-August for the Farm Line, incarcerated men working in extreme heat at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. “It is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - State officials have been ordered to make changes to their heat-related policies regarding outdoor farm work at Angola Prison during extreme heat. The Promise of Justice ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge has ordered the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola to immediately improve conditions for some inmates required to work as farm laborers while a lawsuit claiming ...

Incarcerated men forced to work the fields on the “Farm Line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are once again urging a federal judge to force the state Department of Public Safety and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to stay part of an order from a lower court that would require the state to make a plan to better protect inmates ...

A panel of appellate judges listened to arguments Monday challenging the injunction a federal district judge imposed earlier this year to improve heat protections on the “Farm Line” at Louisiana State ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...

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