BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer.

A 34-year-old Mexican man serving a four-year prison term for drug distribution died Tuesday morning at Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix after being found unresponsive, the prison said ...

A federal judge on Wednesday found ... Texas is not alone in facing lawsuits over dangerously hot prisons. Cases also have been filed in Louisiana and New Mexico. One filed in July in Georgia ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

GRANT PARISH, La. (WNTZ) — A New Orleans woman was arrested following an investigation by the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Office, which uncovered her alleged role in smuggling illegal drugs into Pollack’s ...

former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced Friday to two months in federal prison for his role in an Orange County corruption scandal linked to the sale of Angel Stadium. Sidhu, 67 ...

A 41-year-old man who escaped from the federal prison in Sheridan in 2022 while serving a five-year prison term for drug trafficking will spend at least another two years in custody after he was ...

But the 33-year-old is now being housed at the FTC Oklahoma City — a transfer facility for inmates moving cross-country, federal prison records showed Thursday. Convicted crypto fraudster Sam ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A Syracuse man was sentenced Monday to just under six years in federal prison for a robbery at a Gulf gas station in Salina. Quashawn Pettiford, 34, of Syracuse, was sentenced ...