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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Macquarie Correctional Centre in western New South Wales, a story of collaboration and persistence is unfolding. Inmates and prison officers are farming commercial quantities of fresh food in a ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina women’s prison has become the first correctional facility in the country to grow its own food using a vertical farm. Fourteen inmates at the Camille Graham ...

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.

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 ...