The high cost of a prison phone call has come down. But a new report sounds the alarm on the escalating costs of non-phone services for incarcerated people. Why dozens of men spent most of their ...

Billed as the “The Wildest Show in the South,” the Angola Prison Rodeo is returning this fall ... In a massive arena constructed just outside prison walls, volunteer inmates participate in events like ...

The fall Angola Prison Rodeo is back at Louisiana State Penitentiary and taking place each Sunday in October. The rodeo ...

America's most famous prison rodeo returns this fall to the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where the event ... world famous Guts-n-Glory, where inmates try to pluck a chip from between ...

Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an ...

Instead, a study group is seeking ways to allow inmates live in "prisons without walls" and work at private companies. The planned program is aimed at helping them reintegrate into society with ...

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at ...

Angola’s kwanza recovered from a 25-year low against the dollar after the oil-producing nation’s central bank resumed foreign currency sales to commercial lenders. The Banco Nacional de Angola ...

UNC alum Leigh Lassiter still remembers seeing a flyer for the Prison Books Collective on campus back in 2015. A few years later, Lassiter decided to reach out to the collective, and for the past ...

South Dakota Department of Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko described Metal Craft Industries as a private business exploiting cheap inmate labor. At least some of the inmates who worked ...

Alberto Martinez, 46 (pictured in mugshot), was behind bars in Calipatria State Prison for first-degree murder (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) The latest headlines from ...

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (BRPROUD) – The fall Angola Prison Rodeo is back and taking place each Sunday in October. The rodeo events are scheduled for Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27. The Louisiana State ...