It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

Innocence Project New Orleans is a founding member of the Innocence Network, which works to free the innocent and rectify ...

Students in the Academy of Legal Studies at Northside High received a powerful lesson on Tuesday, February 18. They learned ...

Jose Francisco Herrera Munoz, 18, and Angel Gonzales Gutierrez, 19, had $112,000 worth of tobacco and $89,500 worth of meth ...

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Louisiana senators are pressing state officials for information about the leadership of a controversial juvenile justice ...

Two Colorado men are in custody after an investigation in Louisiana tied them to an attempt to smuggle hundreds of thousands ...

Two men from Colorado were recently arrested in Louisiana for attempting to smuggle drugs into a federal prison, the Grant ...

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