Angola

Why are we paying tax dollars to educate or entertain criminals at Angola?

Herman Wallace died Friday in New Orleans.

Floyd Tillman is also facing charges of cruelty to juveniles, simple criminal damage to property valued at more than $500, remaining on land after being forbidden and simple trespassing.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly referred to as Angola has come under scrutiny recently for complaints by inmates stemming from extreme heat. However, an article highlighted on TheAdvocate.com this morning paints an entirely different picture.

A federal judge has ordered temperature data be collected for 21 straight days in advance of an Aug. 5 trial of a lawsuit by three condemned killers.

In conjunction with human rights activists group Promise of Justice Initiative, three death row inmates of Louisiana's Angola penitentiary have filed suit in Baton Rouge federal court over the conditions in the prison.

DEQUINCY, La. (AP) — Officials say C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center began its final month of full operations by shipping a quarter of its inmate population to Angola State Penitentiary. Warden Robert Henderson tells the American Press five buses carrying 230 prisoners departed DeQuincy Monday, headed for the maximum-security prison in West Feliciana Parish, near the Louisiana-Mississippi border.

The removal of some inmates from DeQuincy's Phelps Correctional Center has begun.

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana State Penitentiary officers have recovered the body of a man from the Mississippi River. West Feliciana Parish sheriff's Lt. Brian Spillman said the body was pulled Thursday from the river near its west bank...

West Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a Louisiana State Penitentiary employee accused of trying to smuggle more than a pound of marijuana into the prison.

Joseph Ward spends his days putting horses through their paces, trying to get them used to things that would normally distress them.

State corrections officials are considering a telephone access program to curtail unauthorized cellphone use in state prisons.