West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard said the Angola Prison Rodeo is the community's largest single tourism event.

Angola Prison inmates participate in "convict poker," a signature event at the Angola Prison Rodeo. Supervised inmates will ...

Hondo Rodeo Fest is bringing elite rodeo, stadium rock — and a rare Angola Prison Rodeo competition — to the Superdome in ...

Years later, in 1931, the general manager of the prison system, Marshall Lee Simmons, dreamed up the idea of the prison rodeo ...

Dooney & Bourke knockoff purses and stainless steel crosses line a long row of picnic tables at the Angola Prison Rodeo craft sale. The artisans wait close behind in a parallel craggy row, separated ...

This week is one of the months the Angola Prison Rodeo takes place back in the spring Light Switch host Greg LaRose talked to reporter Piper Hutchinson, after she attended the Angola Prison Rodeo. She ...

The Angola Prison Rodeo returns this weekend, kicking off Sunday, October 5, and continuing every Sunday throughout October. It's known as the "Wildest Show in the South" and held at the Louisiana ...

From stadium-shaking football nights to flamingo-filled Mardi Gras, blues festivals, river cruises and legendary food, Baton ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to participate in its prison rodeo, the last remaining in the country. Always ...

Another piece of Texas history was razed in mid-January when bulldozers unceremoniously demolished the prison rodeo arena in Huntsville, but the memory of the event rides on. Demolition crews are ...