Reports of abuse at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center led to questions regarding detention center conditions. What to ...

The protocol says that Louisiana prison officials will strap the death row inmate to a gurney ahead of his execution and bring them to the execution chamber. Prison staff will perform a final ...

California also has nine such facilities. All but one of Louisiana's nine facilities are maintained by private prison firms. They include: Louisiana facilities held a combined average of 6,900 ...

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney.

Two men tried distributing tobacco and meth to inmates at a Louisiana prison by hurling it over a security fence with an air cannon, cops said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Two Colorado men are ...

A 54-year-old Louisiana man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison and physical castration after being convicted of raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl. Glenn Sullivan, Sr., of ...

(Julie O’Donoghue, Louisiana Illuminator) In just a matter of months, Gov. Jeff Landry plans to reopen a Baton Rouge-area youth prison shuttered a little over a decade ago with support at the ...

which uncovered her alleged role in smuggling illegal drugs into Pollack’s federal prison. Kalinda Celestine, 37, was taken into custody on charges of distribution of heroin, distribution of ...

Louisiana is only waiting for incarcerated adult women currently held at Jetson to be moved into a new women’s prison in St. Gabriel, juvenile justice officials said. Yet reopening Jetson is be ...

Attorneys for the state and for death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. agreed Thursday to unseal a redacted version of Louisiana's new protocol for using nitrogen gas in executions, shedding public ...

Youth could move to Jetson as early as May. Louisiana is only waiting for incarcerated adult women currently held at Jetson to be moved into a new women’s prison in St. Gabriel, juvenile justice ...