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 ...

Antoine Massey, one of the 10 Orleans Parish jail inmates who escaped in May and the most recent to be recaptured, was ...

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 ...

A Louisiana law that creates criminal penalties for local law enforcement officers who do not fully cooperate with federal ...

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

Antoine Massey, a serial escapee who vanished from a New Orleans jail with nine other inmates just after midnight on May 16, ...

A groundbreaking lawsuit representing prisoners forced to work in “inhumane” conditions could finally put an end to Angola ...