A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious ...

The man credited with turning around one of America’s most dangerous prisons had a nearly 90-minute session with South Dakota ...

An inmate, Anthony Craig, 48, died unexpectedly at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, and an autopsy has been ...

The civil rights group said the citizen's removal directly violated a judge's order to keep him in her court's Louisiana ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order ...

Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after ...

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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to loosen regulations set just last year that would have significantly reduced the rates that prisoners, jail detainees and their loved ones pay to ...

A bruising race for criminal clerk in New Orleans enters the runoff with challenger Calvin Duncan and incumbent Darren Lombard making their final appeals to voters through their campaigns.

David Begnaud is a CBS News contributor and previously served as the lead national correspondent for "CBS Mornings," based in New York City. Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...

The Supreme Court is expected to be sympathetic to the religious rights of a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved off by ...

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Damon Landor. Landor is a Louisiana man who grew long ...