BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison farm work are once again asking a federal judge to order heat protections before the upcoming summer.

Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 39 °F (3.9 °C). Sunny with a high of 70 °F (21.1 °C). Winds from WSW to SSW at 2 to 9 mph (3.2 to 14.5 kph). Sunny today with a high of ...

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 ...

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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 ...