Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum ...

A man indicted in the grisly murders of a Louisiana mother and her daughter has been found competent to stand trial.

For years, conditions at L.A. County's juvenile halls have been deteriorating in plain sight. But despite entering into a ...

It is a fate most people could never imagine: Locked up for decades for a crime you didn’t commit.Now, some state lawmakers - ...

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

What do locals think of the ICE facility in Jena? "I feel like this town has had a lot of drama," one said. "It’s put on the ...

The state attorney general’s office wants corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III removed as a defendant in a case filed on behalf of a man who was beaten to death by correction ...

Afraid of locking people out of the voting process when Louisiana’s new closed primary elections begin next spring, lawmakers and state officials are reworking how voters register for a ...

A total of 10 corrections officers at Mid-State Correctional Facility were indicted and charged in the brutal death of 30-year-old Messiah Nantwi, two with murder. Nantwi, a 22-year-old native of ...

As the state resumes executions of death ... executed due to lengthy appeals processes. In Louisiana, death row inmates have sat in prison for decades awaiting execution. “Victims of crime ...

Last year, Duplessis visited me and other incarcerated individuals at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola as a guest of the Promise of Justice Initiative. He addressed an assembly of prisoners on ...