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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Gov. Jeff Landry is asking Louisiana’s congressional leaders to amend the state’s federal judicial districts, citing caseload growth and public safety concerns.

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

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.

The governor says moving West Feliciana Parish, where the State Penitentiary is located, would ease caseload and improve public safety.

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.

A West Virginia mother will be spending at least 15 years behind bars for the death of her 14-year-old daughter.

A new partnership will bring the Angola Prison Rodeo to New Orleans during The Hondo Rodeo Fest, supporting prison reform efforts and Louisiana’s Victims Impact Fund.

A new documentary by the author of Reinventing Government shows how one of the nation’s worst school districts became the fastest improving.