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

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...

Jose Estevez-Luciano said he understood that he violated the oath he took when he became a corrections officer and was sorry ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

The state, some prison phone companies and the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association, a powerful lobbying group with major sway in state criminal justice policy, argue the new rules are arbitrary.

Milton C. Grimes, a longtime Los Angeles attorney, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay more than ...

As currently written, the Louisiana Constitution limits the types of offenses for which teenagers under 17 can be sent to ...

The closure of these facilities could have significant negative impacts on not only the employees and their families, but our ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

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