When the Legislature rushed through a criminal justice overhaul in 2024, no one had computed the price tag. Now, researchers ...

Louisiana lawmakers continue to add more money for prisons, law enforcement and other public safety agencies into the state ...

The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population ...

An imminent federal ruling could leave Angola’s Farm Line intact. Or it could deeply reshape daily work assignments for hundreds of incarcerated men. [...]Read More... from A Farm Line ruling could re ...

Here is a look at the life of Raúl Castro, former President of Cuba. Personal Birth date: June 3, 1931 Birth place: Birán, Cuba Birth name: Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz Father: Ángel Castro, landowner ...

A deeply personal essay connects the loss of a mother, Louisiana politics and the weakening of the Voting Rights Act to a ...

One year ago Saturday (May 16), 10 inmates of the Orleans Justice Center jail squeezed through a hole created by tearing a toilet and sink off a cell wall and wormed their way to an unmanned loading ...

Saturday, May 16, marks one year since 10 inmates escaped through a hole behind a toilet at the Orleans Parish jail. Here's ...

A Nightly News series on criminal justice reform that highlights the stories of the wrongfully accused and the new ways of seeking justice.

The money for the immigration facility comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, not state dollars. But it is ...

White filmmaker Jeremy Xido documents his painful, ultimately healing reconnection with the city he grew up in and the Black ...

Sources tell WDSU that a man accused of murdering a Covington priest and parishioner has entered a guilty plea in connection with the case. Antonio Tyson was charged in connection with the murders of ...