criminal justice reform

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has ordered multiple investigations into New Orleans’ criminal justice system after 10 men escaped from Orleans Parish Prison last Friday.

Local law enforcement agents could face jail or prison time and heavy fines for failing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a bill moving toward passage in the Louisiana State Legislature.

The program aims to teach the art of political influence and policymaking to formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones.

A member of a grassroots organization rallying against the Orleans jail’s Phase III project was subjected to a profanity-filled exchange with a council member.

Innocence Project New Orleans, Raymond Flanks’ defense team, and DA Jason Williams’ Civil Rights Division filed the motion to vacate his conviction.

Amid a spike in violent crime, crime victim advocates made the case for a Trauma Recovery Center to a City Council committee on Tuesday.

The Promise of Justice Initiative is fighting for the release of more than 1,500 people in Louisiana prisons.This spring the United States Supreme Court…

This year in Louisiana almost 37,000 people became eligible to vote, thanks to a law that reinstated voting rights for formerly incarcerated people after…

The road to Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is long and isolated. It sets the plantation-turned-prison back from lush and hilly West Feliciana…

Massive criminal justice reforms passed by the Legislature two years ago have shed the state’s title as the incarceration capital of the nation....