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

Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented ... victim relationship witnesses." The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will carry out the executions ...

Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated ...

Vehicles enter at the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — the Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. Louisiana plans to ...

An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as fentanyl ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented ... to uphold the promises made to victims of our state’s most violent crimes; but that failure of ...

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.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry said Louisiana will soon resume death penalty executions after the state corrections agency implemented an updated protocol that allows for the sentences to be carried out through ...