The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state prisons—the rate may now be, at most, 6 cents a minute. That is expected to ...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented ... to uphold the promises made to victims of our state’s most violent crimes; but that failure of ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...

It is the first in-person, secular higher-education opportunity for women incarcerated in Louisiana, according to the nonprofit. Only about 600 of 5,000 state and federal prisons and local jails ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

Robert Brooks, 43, was brutally beaten with his hands tied behind his back by corrections officers while in custody at Marcy Correction Facility on Dec. 9. At the time of the attack, he was serving a ...

(Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has adopted new ... Murrill echoed Landry’s stance, saying the state is committed to enforcing the death penalty.