Louisiana has been repeatedly accused of holding inmates past their release date. State officials say the problem has been ...

Matthew Mire, who murdered a Louisiana State Police trooper and a Prairieville woman in 2021, was sentenced in Ascension ...

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Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

A district attorney announced Thursday that Matthew Mire, the suspect in the 2021 multi-parish shooting spree that killed ...

Sepulvado had been housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum-security lockup in the United States and the site of the nation’s longest-running prison rodeo.

He’ll serve his sentence alongside Chad Daybell, the child murderer and husband of “Doomsday” cult mom Lori Vallow, as well ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

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An employee of the Louisiana Department of Corrections resigned shortly before being charged with smuggling cell phones and ...