Louisiana law explicitly defines residency as a place where a person intends to stay indefinitely, and by that standard, prison cells do not qualify, the report says.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, whose top priority is addressing crime, appointed a new prisons chief to oversee America's most incarcerated population.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. Several of the ...

Parole via algorithm is not just legal in Louisiana, but a deliberate element in Republican Governor Jeff Landry’s crusade against parole. Last year, he signed a law eliminating parole for all ...

(The Center Square) − A report from the Prison Policy Initiative says Louisiana’s political map gives unfair influence to residents in districts with large prison populations because of a ...