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On a per-capita basis, Louisiana leads the nation in the number of people behind bars. A diverse group of business and religious leaders have come…
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Several red states, including Louisiana, have been diverting some offenders away from prison and into drug treatment and other incarceration alternatives. But not everyone is embracing the effort.
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WYES continues its ongoing initiative exploring progress rebuilding a safer, stronger, smarter city post-Katrina.The WWNO/ WYES series on Orleans Criminal…
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If you can’t get lethal injection drugs, how do you impose the death penalty? "We have the death sentence. Whether some of you agree with that or...
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Lawyers for the city of New Orleans and Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman have reached an agreement, for now, on how to spend hundreds of thousands of…
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Many lawmakers around the nation have adopted the “get tough on crime” slogan in the last 25 years. But Louisiana took it to heart, perhaps more so than…
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A Louisiana man has been released from death row after serving almost 30 years behind bars. New information shows he was not involved in the murder of a…
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Louisiana Department of Corrections officials have conducted a shakedown raid at a Covington work-release facility that houses state inmates.The…
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The state corrections department says the only way it can lower heat levels on Louisiana's death row to a federal judge's requirements is by installing…
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Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration is doing a poor job making sure the prevention and diversion programs it uses are helping to keep children out of youth…