Louisiana’s state-run youth detention centers have reported significant decreases in assaults, something officials attribute to a new detention facility for particularly at-risk youth and enhanced ...

A convicted child molester has been released from a Missouri prison despite pleas from the people he molested.

Voters have a chance on March 29 to turn the tide against Gov. Jeff Landry and his legislature’s extensive, expensive plans ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...

Concordia Parish could receive $3 million for the renovation of a jail facility for 17-year-olds as part of $93.6 million the ...

Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...

The Marshall Project spotlights local officials who see President Donald Trump's promise of mass deportation as an answer to ...

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to return convicted murderer John ...

I will not be signing an extradition order that came from the governor of Louisiana, not now, not ever,” Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for a separate murder will be put to death.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York on Thursday rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite a doctor who was charged with ...