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At least one guard was injured and needed to be taken to a hospital Thursday night after five juveniles held at the Swanson Center for Youth in Monroe attacked the

Louisiana will move youth incarcerated at its maximum-security adult penitentiary in Angola to a new youth correctional center in the fall, a state corrections official said Friday. Meanwhile, the Office

A Louisiana senator has pulled her proposal to help women imprisoned for killing their alleged abusers after it ran into opposition from prosecutors around the state. Instead, Sen. Regina Barrow,

State investigators are reviewing the death of a man shortly after his arrest on April 3 by Charles Mix County sheriff’s deputies. Friends of 35-year-old Robert Dennis “Berta” Enoch have

Louisiana’s recent criminal justice reforms, which significantly reduced prison populations, are not the cause of the recent spike in violent crime, according to a new report from the Pelican Institute.

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice won’t say when certain incarcerated young people in its custody might move to a refurbished building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice won’t say when certain incarcerated young people in its custody might move to a refurbished building on the grounds of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at

Louisiana broke ground Thursday on a new $149 million women’s prison in St. Gabriel meant to replace a correctional facility damaged during widespread flooding in the Baton Rouge area in

Louisiana legislators once again failed to pass a new law that would allow criminal records to be expunged automatically. A dispute between House Democrats and Republicans tanked a bill that

The Legislature passed a bill that would sort juveniles convicted of crimes into risk categories that could be used to segregate high-risk youth in secure facilities. Senate Bill 323, sponsored