Costs for housing prisoners are rising again, fueled by an increase in the prison population and the price of housing ...

As incarceration numbers climb again, Louisiana lawmakers are weighing an $82 million boost to corrections spending — plus $28 million for a new juvenile detention center.

People in prisons in Louisiana and across the nation say they're not receiving proper medical care. Why are these cases so common?

Letlow says she will author a bill next week to move West Feliciana Parish to the Western District.

Gov. Jeff Landry seeks to move West Feliciana Parish to another federal judicial district for efficiency reasons.

The proposed increases seem to be a significant issue when the Legislature convenes for its regular session from March 9 to June 1, with some Democrats and advocacy groups already expressing concerns.

A St. James Parish man, who has been imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary for more than three decades and had his conviction and sentence vacated last year, has had bail set at $1 million.

A Breaux Bridge mother is demanding answers after learning that a man convicted in her son’s 2018 murder was reclassified as a non-violent offender and transferred to a transitional work program.

Baton Rouge, LA – The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections is announcing the death of a 35-year-old Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) inmate, Jonathan Robertson on Tuesday, Feb. 3.

A team of prison reformists made their final push Tuesday to convince a federal judge to order an end to “degrading and dehiumanizing” labor for field workers on the so-called Farm Line at the state’s ...

The number of prisoners paroled in Louisiana has plummeted under Gov. Jeff Landry to its lowest point in 20 years, the most visible impact of the “tough on crime” policies he campaigned on. The parole ...