Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (LSU Manship School News Service) – In 2016, Louisiana faced a $2 billion budget gap, and lawmakers decided they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prison and jail overcrowding is a persistent issue in the U.S., the country having one of the highest incarceration rates in the ...

Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, the governor’s staff says state incarceration expenses are surging. Landry’s ...

Tickets for the annual fall Angola Prison Rodeo are now available to buy. The Louisiana State Penitentiary rodeo tradition ...

In 2016, Louisiana faced a $2 billion budget gap, and lawmakers decided they could no longer afford to lock so many people up. But in 2024, after a nationwide crime spike during the COVID pandemic, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Leslie Harris has missed most milestones in his daughter’s life while serving a decades-long sentence in Louisiana for armed robbery and is unlikely to get out before her prom, her ...

A bipartisan Louisiana bill signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry allows people who are incarcerated to earn 90 days of “good time” credit for earning an associate’s degree. The law takes ...

Prison and jail overcrowding is a persistent issue in the U.S., the country having one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. The U.S. has an incarceration rate of 580 imprisonments per ...