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He rammed a get-tough-on-crime package through the state Legislature.

He rammed a get-tough-on-crime package through the state Legislature.

“If we want our system to work, there's an opportunity and role for us to be involved,” Snowden said.

A coalition of Black New Orleans civic leaders has galvanized around the goal of fending off intensifying incursions from state leaders into the citys local governance.

In Louisiana, at least 1,601 people are still incarcerated on the basis of a Jim Crow–era law allowing for conviction by a nonunanimous verdict.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A House committee voted 13-2 Wednesday to advance a bill that would make juvenile criminal information in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport more available to

Local jails across the state’s rural parishes have played a major role in elevating Louisiana's mass incarceration rate

Community advocates called on the City Council to spend some of the millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid sitting in city coffers on affordable housing and youth development programs, which are aimed at easing the structural problems at the root of the city’s struggle with violence and crime.

A handful of states are considering doing away with cash bail completely. Is that a good idea?

If Tausili Akana played with a little extra motor during Skyridges win last week against American Fork, consider for whom the massive edge presence was putting on a show for.