Today in History for July 28: In 1540, King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a ...

Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, both from Louisiana, lead Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill to victory.

Justice Clarence Thomas says the Court is dodging its duty in Louisiana v. Callais, where race, voting rights, and the Constitution collide.

Frankie and Mallory Sotile earned the Louisiana Farm Bureau's 2025 Young Farmers and Ranchers Achievement Award.

He is the author of two books, Prison and Social Death (Rutgers, 2015) and Structural Violence: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women (SUNY, 2012). He coedited the forthcoming Decarceration and ...

Accelerating the de-prisoning of America is worthwhile and possible. The benefits of a smaller prison population are not limited to those who would otherwise be locked up and the people who love them.

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Supreme Court will hear case of Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were shaved by Louisiana prison guards Damon Landor carried a copy of a ruling by the appeals court in another inmate’s case holding ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs ...