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New federal policies extend Medicaid to incarcerated youth and open the door for adult inmates to get coverage before they’re released.

Around 70 mental health professionals and educators in Louisiana have signed a letter urging state lawmakers to vote against a proposed constitutional amendment that could send more young teenagers to adult prisons.

In a special lawmaking session focused on tax policy, Louisiana lawmakers are also quietly moving legislation that could lead to more underage youth being sent to adult prisons.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear the second part of the latest episode of Sea Change about the lasting impacts of segregated beaches in New Orleans. Plus, we head to the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about an exhibit on the connection between slavery and the modern prison system.

For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. prison populations are trending up. Louisiana's numbers are a part of troubling gains across the Gulf South.

Prisons, jails, and youth detention centers across Louisiana are seeing an increase in ‘unnatural’ deaths caused by drug overdoses, suicide, and violence.

Incarcerated youth from across the state deemed the most troubled and aggressive could be moved to a building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, one of the country’s largest and most notorious maximum security prisons for adults.

The state struggles to attract employees to work in its juvenile justice facilities.

Recent deaths in prisons across the Gulf South have highlighted issues from staffing to healthcare to climate change. An expert on deaths in custody discusses how they can be prevented.