Baton Rouge city-parish officials have tasked an architectural firm with devising a plan for a new jail and juvenile detention center to house the parish’s pretrial detainees, a move that
Almost a month has passed since East Baton Rouge Parish began sending arrested 17-year-olds to a facility upstate, after Sheriff Sid Gautreaux deemed the local jail unfit to house them.
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Recent developments have induced debate over the suitability of detention centers like the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, and a new bill designed to address troubles at juvenile facilities is
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.
BATON ROUGE — Seven 17-year-olds previously incarcerated at the chronically-full East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Detention Center have been transferred to the Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro as of Friday, officials said Monday morning.
As of Friday, all 17-year-olds arrested in Baton Rouge and set to be charged as adults will be sent to the Jackson Parish Correctional Center in Jonesboro because the parish
Natchitoches, La - On April 4, 2024 around 3:58 p.m., officers with the Natchitoches Police Department were dispatched to Brahma Drive in reference to gunshots in the area. Upon officers