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 ...

For the men on the farm line at Angola, agricultural labor is not a pathway to opportunity. It is a state-enforced practice ...

Angola, whose once-buoyant agriculture sector was devastated by a 27-year civil war, is looking to revive farming production with a major programme of government spending and private investment. About ...

Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the "farm line" at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — including laboring outdoors in extreme heat — a federal judge ...

A federal judge has again ordered prison officials to protect incarcerated men from heat on a work detail at Louisiana's largest prison, finding the men are at "substantial risk of suffering serious ...

For the past 30 years, Jose Vilomba (47) has walked barefoot on one of Africa’s most fertile valleys using his hands and a shovel to plant vegetables to feed his family. ”I’ve been doing this for ...

Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the “farm line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — including laboring outdoors in extreme heat — a federal judge ...