Joy Sewing is an award-winning news columnist for the Houston Chronicle, reporting and opining on issues, including social ...

Discover the Top 12 Largest Prisons in the US [Update 2025] with our comprehensive guide on America's biggest correctional ...

CLIPC is one of nine immigrant detention centers in Louisiana, which is not a border state and does not feature a large ...

A Louisiana bill would allow people convicted by non-unanimous juries to petition for their cases to be reviewed.

Dozens of inmates participated alongside expert ranchers, riders and wranglers in the spring 2025 edition of the Angola ...

"This law is criminalizing poverty," said David Larson, a member of UNITY of Greater New Orleans' People's Council.

Walking out of prison at age 61, Adams had nothing but the clothes on his back. Louisiana law says because he was wrongly sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit, he’s entitled to money from the ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we discuss a current lawsuit involving Angola Farm Line workers fighting against harsh working ...

The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office has policies to reject many requests from immigration agents, which is at odds with a ...

Investigators found the Jackson Parish Jail violated state rules 83 times between July and February—12 times more than the ...

Jimmie Duncan was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 1998 after being accused by prosecutors of raping and ...

A Louisiana judge has dismissed the conviction of Jimmie Christian Duncan, a man who spent 26 years on death row for the death of his girlfriend's toddler daughter, after new evidence showed that the ...