Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

Thomas J. Crittenden, decided to build a second penitentiary to relieve overcrowding at the Jefferson City penitentiary, built in 1836. A commission consisting of John Walker, state auditor ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Ark. (KATV) — State Senator Brian King is developing a new project aimed at halting Governor Sarah Sanders' controversial prison expansion project in Franklin County, which he ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the death of an inmate at North Kern State Prison as a homicide, according to CDCR. Officers were conducting ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is seeking $400 million in the next state budget to more quickly install surveillance cameras across the entire New York state prison system. Hochul said in a ...

According to the minister, Angola's debt service has averaged 16 billion US dollars per year over the past three years, with China as the largest creditor. "Debt is a strategic tool for the growth and ...

Michigan City residents said they would like to see housing, mixed-use development or more green space at the Indiana State Prison site. The city held the first public meeting last week on how to ...

An Erie man who had been serving a three-year sentence in the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove in White Township for a felony firearms count will be spending up to two more years in a ...

A Clymer man was sentenced Friday by Indiana County Common Pleas Judge Gina R. Force to one to five years in a state correctional institution for a felony count of possession with intent to ...