The organization God Behind Bars teamed up with the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, to hold the very first ...

Jimmy Duncan was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary death row after Judge Alvin Sharp granted him bail, setting it at $150,000, due to discredited evidence used in his 1998 conviction for ...

Daniel Callihan, 38, received two additional consecutive life sentences in federal court, following his previous life ...

A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison.

Duncan's remarkable journey took him from Angola inmate wrongfully convicted of murder to elected official at Tulane and ...

Bernard Joseph and Marcus Hamilton are serving life terms for murdering a priest. Today, they are claimants in the New ...

Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, he has won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job.

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 ...

The JustPod is a podcast of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, hosted by Justin Danilewitz and Geonard Butler. This ...