Jimmy Duncan was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary death row after Judge Alvin Sharp granted him bail, setting it at ...

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in ...

A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious Angola prison.

ANGOLA, La. — Federal authorities purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the U.S. illegally to self-deport, Department of ...

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.

A inmate in Louisiana is on the run after allegedly throwing a chemical substance at an officer and escaping from jail, ...

The St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Department said two inmates broke out after a "brief struggle," during which a chemical substance was thrown at a police officer's face.

Louisiana lawmakers will soon be able to demand citizens remove internet posts containing the officials’ personal information ...

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