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.

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

The Louisiana Department of Health announced this week it no longer will promote mass vaccinations in the state, saying the move was necessary to “rebuild trust.” In a letter released Thursday ...

Still, there’s another thing on many New York State Department of Corrections workers’ minds, potential staffing cuts at every state prison. I received a copy of this internal memo sent by the ...

Wisconsin’s second-oldest prison, built in the 1800s and long targeted for closure, would finally be shuttered under a new plan from Gov. Tony Evers that proposes sweeping changes to the state ...

The Progress Community Corrections Center (CCC) in Waynesburg, a facility designed to assist inmates with their reentry into society, is among four state facilities being slated for closure. A state ...

A former corrections officer learned his prison sentence for a sexual battery conviction, according to our media partners WCPO-9 TV. Quincy Scott was sentenced to 9 months in prison after he ...

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