punishable by up to 10 years in prison, depending on the circumstances. State Rep. Pat Moore, D-Monroe, said she filed House Bill 76 at the request of a Louisiana woman who said she contracted ...

A convicted murderer was put to death in a Louisiana prison using nitrogen gas, the first time the state has used the controversial method as it resumed executions after 15 years. Jessie Hoffman ...

Lethal injection was already in place. On Tuesday afternoon, a small group of execution opponents held a vigil outside the rural southeast Louisiana prison at Angola, where the state's executions ...

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

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.

Glen Sullivan Sr., a 54-year-old Springfield, Louisiana man, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison and to be castrated after raping a 14-year-old girl multiple times and getting her pregnant.

Nine Louisiana residents have been sentenced to prison terms after a drug trafficking investigation in Avoyelles Parish, according to a news release. An investigation into methamphetamine ...

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.