A notorious Louisiana prison was chosen for immigrant detainees to urge self-deportation, Noem says
September 3, 2025
Federal authorities say they’ve deliberately chosen a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the announcement Wednesday. A complex inside the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, will be used to for what Noem said would be some of the “worst of the worst” ICE detainees. Many of Angola’s 6,300 prisoners still work surrounding fields on the penitentiary grounds, picking vegetables by hand under the watch of armed guards on horseback.