BATON ROUGE – After more than a year of national and local advocacy, public outrage and an ongoing federal lawsuit, the state of Louisiana has finally relented and moved children out of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola...

BATON ROUGE -- A federal judge has ordered Louisiana officials to stop housing children in the former death row of Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, and to remove them from the location by Sept. 15. The ruling, which Chief Judge Shelly Dick delivered from the bench, comes after...

BATON ROUGE — Yesterday was the first day of a multi-day emergency hearing in which attorneys representing children — nearly all Black boys — incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, are making the case for why emergency action should be taken to order the state...

BATON ROUGE — New court filings reveal for the first time that children — almost all Black boys — are being placed in routine solitary confinement for 72 hours when they are detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison...

NEW ORLEANS — The ACLU of Louisiana and the law firm Wilson Sonsini sent a letter today to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the lack of access to counsel within Louisiana’s prison system.

In response to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Louisiana, a federal judge has ruled that medical care at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is constitutionally inadequate, causing a substantial risk of serious medical harm for the prison’s population.

NEW ORLEANS – In response to a lawsuit by the ACLU of Louisiana, a district court judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) to turn over all responsive records regarding its COVID-19 Furlough Review Panel.

WASHINGTON — Last night, a federal judge dismissed our class action lawsuit against Warden Rodney Myers and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director Michael Carvajal, filed on behalf of incarcerated people at the Oakdale Federal Correctional Institution in Oakdale, Louisiana.