Louisiana officials are denying reports from over the weekend that immigrant detainees at the state penitentiary in Angola ...

The Trump administration plans to detain immigrants in the nation's largest maximum-security prison – a Louisiana lock-up with a notorious history as a "prison plantation." Louisiana has played a key ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles are parked outside of Camp 57 in Angola, Louisiana, on Sep. 3, 2025. The vehicles were set up behind a podium for the announcement of the camp, also known ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

The strike was reported by the National Immigration Project on Saturday. The group says the detainees have not been eating ...

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola doesn't have enough beds to house violent offenders, Gov. Jeff Landry said in an executive order declaring a state of emergency that will allow the prison to ...