A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

Reformists have spent the past week arguing that Louisiana’s largest prison violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights by assigning them to the Angola Farm Line.

A US District Court has certified a class action for incarcerated men at Angola Prison who are forced to perform punitive ...

After hard work in the sun on the Farm Line, he’d fall asleep, only to be visited by nightmares, Chadarius Morehead testified ...

CAXITO, Angola -- After decades of civil war destroyed Angola's fertile farmland and a booming oil industry pushed out all other commerce, Santa Rodrigo wondered how she could ever bring up her five ...

Last week, U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson extended protections through mid-August for the Farm Line, incarcerated men working in extreme heat at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. “It is ...

Incarcerated men forced to work the fields on the “Farm Line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are once again urging a federal judge to force the state Department of Public Safety and ...

A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to keep heat safety measures in place another 90 days for field workers at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. U ...