The Advocate3h
Two Louisiana executions set back-to-back, possibly the state's first using nitrogen gas
Gov. Jeff Landry announced in February 2025 that executions are set to resume in Louisiana, and state judges signed death ...
Arkansas Times4h
Prison opponents voice concerns as Arkansas officials proceed with 3,000-bed project
The Board of Corrections also approved a lease for a ‘Women’s health unit' and expressed concerns about a delay regarding a ...
The Pantagraph5h
Ex-Stateville inmates sent to medium-security prisons despite violent records, data shows
Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder. Another hundred are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet ...
Violent Illinois inmates from shuttered prison sent to medium-security sites
When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...
NOLA.com3d
After 15 years without executions, Louisiana ready to resume them using gas, Jeff Landry says
Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...
NOLA.com8d
A new rule slashed how much prisons can charge for phone calls. Louisiana is challenging it.
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
The Shreveport Times16d
Trump dissolves prior ban on private prisons. How do ICE detainment centers factor in?
for-profit prisons in 2022, which represents approximately 8% of the total state and federal prison population, says the Sentencing Project. In July of 2023, over 90% of approximately 30,000 ...