Jimmie Duncan was convicted of murder and sentenced to death 27 years ago. But this year, a judge vacated the verdict, ...

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 ...

The handyman who beat, stabbed and strangled a La Carreta waitress with a rice cooker cord should return to Florida’s Death Row, a Miami jury said Friday afternoon.

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life ...

Sharnae Every was sentenced to 41 months for creating over 110 fake PPP loans, including supervised release and a fee, ...

Brandon Jermaine Francisco, 39, of Mansura, pleaded guilty in federal court Nov. 13 to committing a carjacking resulting in ...

Louisiana cheer mom Leeann Yammarino, 44, was sentenced to 26 years in prison for sex-related crimes involving teenagers on Tuesday, Nov. 18 Louisiana cheer mom Leeann Yammarino, 44, was sentenced to ...

As Baton Rouge faces another budget crisis, the fight over how to fund the system is intensifying, fueled by frustration that ...

"Like the desert, one's inner life is strengthened in prison," the ex-president wrote, giving a flavor of the book's tone.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will publish a book about his recent time behind bars, titled “Diary of a Prisoner,” ...

Cheri Hayden, 60, a mother, grandmother, and cancer patient, has spent 15 years in prison for a Jefferson Parish murder she ...

Cheri Hayden's case involved a "cumulation of errors deprived her of fundamental fairness and due process,” the court found.