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Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome says 17-year-olds should be jailed at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, but Sheriff Sid Gautreaux is refusing to take them.

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Attorneys for Lee Michael Creely claim that a nurse working at the jail lied about her account of what happened on the day Creely died.

A federal court order that bars Louisiana from housing incarcerated youth at the state penitentiary at Angola expires this month, raising questions about whether state officials might try to move troubled teens back to the maximum security adult prison. 

Five teens, three of whom the state recently removed from a youth lockup at the State Penitentiary at Angola, attempted a violent escape from a north Louisiana jail this week,

Here are the notable grand jury indictments and court decisions for the week of Oct. 1, 2023.

In her order, District Court Judge Shelly Dick wrote, “After hearing seven days of testimony and considering thousands of pages of exhibits, the Court finds that the conditions of confinement of the youth incarcerated at Angola constitute cruel and unusual punishment, and the punitive atmosphere and systemic programming failures violate the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Louisiana corrections officials are appealing a recent federal court order that requires the Office of Juvenile Justice to remove all youth housed at the former death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola by Friday.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily stopped the forced transfer of juveniles from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola ordered by a Baton Rouge federal judge who

Children, some as young as 15, incarcerated at notorious Angola prison, which has reputation for brutality and violence