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

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.

Two Louisiana senators are raising questions about why Louisiana’s youth prison system banned at-home visits for incarcerated ...

The only woman on Louisiana Death Row, Antionette Frank, could receive execution date after 30 years of incarceration. Read ...

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 ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo. By Tim Balk Louisiana’s top health official said in an internal memo to the state’s Health Department on Thursday that it would no ...

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 ...

A Charlotte man was arrested in Louisiana on Friday after Louisiana State Police searched his tractor-trailer and found drugs ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday. “The State of Louisiana and LDH ...