Supreme Court stopped the trial of civilians by court martial, saving Besigye and ...

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

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

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Before an Auburn man was sentenced to prison Thursday for raping a minor, he heard a message from the victim. Weston R. Rhodes, 30, was sentenced in Cayuga County Court that morning for second ...

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there.

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

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

The lockup currently houses thousands of members of gangs that terrorized the Central American country for decades.

Bukele ordered the mega-prison built as he began his campaign against El Salvador’s gangs in March 2022. It opened a year later in the town of Tecoluca, about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of the ...