(KTAL/KMSS) – A dispute that resulted in an inmate’s death is under investigation at a Louisiana state prison, according to the Department of Corrections. DOC Director of Communications Ken ...

A Black man died after a beating by the police in 2019. The assault “demonstrated serious failures,” the Justice Department ...

A 67-year-old Louisiana man was sentenced to 32 years in prison on Thursday for conspiracy to commit murder in connection with a Lone Tree man’s 1985 shooting death during a home invasion. Michael ...

A man and two women from Shreveport have been sentenced for their involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy which resulted ...

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Friday. The suit against ...

and Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” which makes powerful use of its subject’s home videos to chronicle her efforts to free her husband from a Louisiana prison. “Daughters” was shot in ...

As Louisiana Poet Laureate, Alison Pelegrin, writer in residence at Southeastern Louisiana University, is Louisiana’s acting ...

A Baton Rouge man was sentenced to 80 years in prison for sexual battery of a child and other charges related to pornography ...

State District Judge Vincent Lobello sentenced Pratt to 30-year prison terms for the manslaughter, aggravated burglary and ...

Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, better known as rapper NBA YoungBoy, appears to have been granted a July 2025 release from prison as part of a plea deal.

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