The state of Louisiana is on something of a law-and-order binge these days. Governor Jeff Landry is hot to kill more people. And the state also seems to be bound and determined to keep prisoners in ...

That decision makes Louisiana the only state to use risk scores to automatically rule out large portions of a prison population from being considered for parole, according to seven national ...

Louisiana is emerging as a linchpin for immigrant ... At the time a state criminal justice overhaul had reduced the prison population, threatening the economies of small towns that rely on the ...

Combined with its adult jailed population, Louisiana has one of the highest incarceration rates in the U.S., according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a national criminal justice research group.

One year after Harris County criminal defendant Jaleen Anderson died in a Louisiana prison, some Texas lawmakers ... holding Texas’ growing jail population. But Texas officials are also ...