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BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer. The ...

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards on horseback. He ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...

Prisoners working the Farm Line at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. (Photo from federal judge's order via Courthouse News) (CN) — The state of Louisiana asked a Fifth Circuit ...