A failed House bill would have established a statewide system for reporting prison and jail deaths in Louisiana. Advocates say it was a first step in addressing systemic issues in the state’s ...

Although prisoners face dangerously harsh conditions while working the “farm line” at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at ...

A federal judge has finally ruled two years after a lawsuit challenged the dangerous and "inhumane" work conditions inside America's most notorious prison.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana’s Department of Corrections uses a complicated system to calculate prison release dates that lacks proper oversight and creates risk for errors, according to a new ...