Additionally, Louisiana ranked number 46 in education, 46 in fiscal stability, 48 in infrastructure, 49 in natural environment and 46 in opportunity. 10 best states according to U.S. News & World ...

The Louisiana review was prompted by a 2023 state House resolution asking for a compliance assessment of care for women in the state's jails and prisons.

ICE ended up snapping up those newly emptied beds by offering lucrative contracts to Louisiana’s private prisons. (Almost all of Louisiana’s detention centers are privately owned.)By López ...

In Louisiana prisons without air conditioning, Cloud found the rate of daily suicide watch incidents increased by 29% when the heat index reached the “caution” level, defined for the study as ...