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

The Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola), which sits on the site of a former slave plantation, has long forced incarcerated people, primarily Black men, to work on its prison farm ...

DEKALB COUNTY, GA — A tire fire at an abandoned prison farm in DeKalb County on Sunday sent plumes of smoke into the sky that could be seen for miles. The fire started around 7 a.m. at the Old Atlanta ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that officials at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola must again take special precautions to protect inmates who work in the prison's fields during high ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rows of lettuce sit in a recycled shipping container at Camille Griffin Graham Correctional in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, March ...

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) — The world moves quickly. It moves so quickly, in fact, missing a year or two while being incarcerated can mean your skills are obsolete once you’ve served your time.

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 ...

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...

An prison farm feeds food insecure families; A friar feeds the needy; Al visits a Paw Paw Festival. At Eastern Correctional Institute, an inmate-run farm feeds Somerset County’s most food-insecure ...

A women's open prison is teaching its inmates look after livestock, drive tractors and run an on-site farm. East Sutton Park Prison in Maidstone, Kent, allows people to work on the farm to supply ...

COLUMBIA, N.C. (WNCT) — Linwood Etheridge Jr. is the new warden of Tyrrell Prison Work Farm. Etheridge previously served as the facility’s associate warden of operations. As warden, Etheridge is in ...