Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has taken another step in his shift toward a tough-on-crime stance, announcing plans to build a new prison in the Central American nation modeled on the maximum ...

The Indiana Supreme Court will not reduce the 110-year prison sentence issued to a Gary man who murdered three young adults ...

A Louisiana bill would allow people convicted by non-unanimous juries to petition for their cases to be reviewed.

Dozens of inmates participated alongside expert ranchers, riders and wranglers in the spring 2025 edition of the Angola ...

The collective hum of hundreds of sewing machine needles ploughing through fabric pierces the air as the prisoners get to ...

What began as a prison gang formed in the 2000s in Venezuela is now labeled as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S.

It’s a fate most people could never imagine: Locked up for decades for a crime you didn’t commit. Now, some state lawmakers - ...

Today on Louisiana Considered, we discuss a current lawsuit involving Angola Farm Line workers fighting against harsh working ...

The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office has policies to reject many requests from immigration agents, which is at odds with a ...

In this way, and others, CECOT qualifies not only as a prison but a concentration camp. That might be a shocking allegation ...

A Louisiana judge has dismissed the conviction of Jimmie Christian Duncan, a man who spent 26 years on death row for the death of his girlfriend's toddler daughter, after new evidence showed that the ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.