Louisiana, New York and other states are rolling back reforms — and efforts to reduce excessive sentencing or expand parole ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge's rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

Angola inmates are again asking a federal judge to stop forced farm labor during extreme heat, arguing the practice is ...

While there is nothing illegal about the bidding process, a public policy watchdog questions the fairness of what’s happening ...

Texas Prison Museum Director David Stacks will be featured at The Wynne Home Arts and Visitors Center’s upcoming Speaker Series. The event will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20.

Yes, spring sprung Friday, and it should be the time we can expect most bass calling south Louisiana waters home ... for the annual City Park Big Bass Rodeo in New Orleans hope there is enough ...

Proposals include bills to crack down on organized retail theft, impose prison time on people ... that inmates are sent out of state to Mississippi and Louisiana. About 4,100 Texas jail inmates ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A strike that paralyzed New York's prison system for three weeks ended Monday with most workers returning to their jobs and state officials firing about 2,000 holdouts who ...

Twenty people have been charged, and the final arrest was recently made in connection with a Nevada prison brawl that left three inmates dead and five others injured. Nevada Attorney General Aaron ...

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution, which would have been Louisiana's first in ...

face up to 15 years in prison, $200,000 in fines and the loss of their medical license. Landry demanded that Carpenter be turned over to Louisiana and face the state’s justice system.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Death Row building at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Angola, La. (AP Photo/Judi ...