Janice Parker walked into the medical ward at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ... “one of the most dramatic plans to increase prison population I’ve ever seen.” ...

A 2015 lawsuit by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary ... come as prison policy experts expect a number of new, tough-on-crime laws to increase the state’s prison population, further ...

compared each state's prison population in 2021 and 2022 (the latest data available). The analysis showed that the total number of prisoners in the U.S. justice system increased by 2.08 percent ...

Janice Parker walked into the medical ward at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ... “one of the most dramatic plans to increase prison population I’ve ever seen.” ...