In 2016, Louisiana faced a $2 billion budget gap, and lawmakers decided they could no longer afford to lock so many people up.

Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, the governor’s staff says state incarceration expenses are surging. Landry’s ...

Invest in Louisiana's projections for budget shortfalls of more than $1 billion by 2029 are based on "simple math," executive ...

In a state with the highest incarceration rate in the nation, operating prisons should be one of the things we excel at. Yet time and time again, Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety and ...

A Louisiana bill proposes that notifications be issued after an inmate has been improperly released from a parish prison or ...

In this week’s episode, we discuss the ongoing healthcare crisis in Louisiana’s prison system, especially with Angola prison, ...