The New Orleans City Council took a symbolic stand Thursday against job discrimination based on workers' felony conviction ...

Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, ...

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

The mixed feelings generated by Louisiana’s resurrection of capital punishment stemmed largely from association. Prisoners with no connection to the 56 condemned men went about their business. But ...

Louisiana state law requires executions to happen between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. The state's death chamber is at Angola ... Rouge and a federal judge in New Orleans will each hear arguments Tuesday ...

(Louisiana First) — Attorneys representing Angola inmates assigned to prison ... were often “irrational” and insufficient. A new motion filed this week seeks an order that would reinstate ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Corrections has announced Darrel Vannoy will return as the warden of ...