Jimmy Duncan was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary death row after Judge Alvin Sharp granted him bail, setting it at $150,000, due to discredited evidence used in his 1998 conviction for ...

New Orleans is warily awaiting a monthslong federal crackdown to arrest thousands of immigrants. Around 250 federal agents ...

Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Last week, he won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job.

The JustPod is a podcast of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, hosted by Justin Danilewitz and Geonard Butler. This ...

Callihan admitted to killing Callie Brunett inside her Loranger home, kidnapping her two daughters, and later killing the ...

Columnist Will Sutton feels the Louisiana governor has made enough moves that it sometimes feels as though the governor wants ...

Bernard Joseph and Marcus Hamilton are serving life terms for murdering a priest. Today, they are claimants in the New ...

Two inmates, Cecil Michael Stratton and Brandon Lee Brunet, escaped from the Berwick Police Department Jail and attacked ...

The context: Tyler was part of a group of Black students in Louisiana bussed to a formerly all-white high school under court ...

In 1971 and 1972, Bill Walsh co-chaired a prison reform committee, which was established by former Gov. Richard Kneip. At the time, Walsh was an active Catholic priest and chaplain at the state ...

An exhibition of Tyler’s quilts captures scenes of humanity from within the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary.