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

An Alexandria teen facing a maximum prison sentence of 99 years on Wednesday spurned a plea offer of probation.

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

Cinematic portrayals of inmates being thrown in a dingy, small, unlit cell with no running water and only a slit in the door for occasional food for years ...

One wonders whether Sepulveda will even be taken out of his wheelchair before he is so inhumanely murdered by Gov. Landry and the state.

Three Aryan Brotherhood members were convicted of orchestrating murders and other crimes from California prisons. But will ...

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 ...

"There's so many other steps that have to come after this for some action to really ... make us believe that it's true," a former prisoner said.

Red Onion State Prison’s chief of security suggested charging the inmates for their care after the burns, while an assistant warden suggested prosecuting them for setting fires in their cells, adding ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison ... fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in solitary confinement ...

As title cards inform viewers at the start of the film, Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing ... concrete fortress cell, in this massive institution designed to hold over a thousand people in ...