Children in juvenile custody are not supposed to be punished. But when we put children in Angola, with its brutal architecture of barbed wire and guard towers, with all its ghosts and its legacy ...

In the year since Gov. John Bel Edwards announced he would send children to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the harm of the decision has been immeasurable. Citing serious problems at ...

FLEC-FAC spokesman, Emmanuel Nzita, speaking to DW from exile in Switzerland, confirmed these allegations. Official statements from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights regularly emphasize that ...

The Office of Juvenile Justice will house the children at Angola temporarily while finishing construction on another place to detain them. A judge stated that incarcerating kids at Angola would ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Youth justice advocates are denouncing the transfer of children to the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola Prison. The state confirmed yesterday that it transferred the ...

Markus Genovese receives a 5 to 15-year sentence for causing a crash that killed an 8-year-old boy. BUFFALO, N.Y. — An Angola ...

Angola, in southwestern Africa, is the seventh largest country in the continent and the second-largest Portuguese-speaking nation in the world. Roughly square shaped, Angola is bordered by the ...