Two years after Gov. Jeff Landry and state lawmakers voted to lengthen dozens of prison sentences for criminal convictions, ...

Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the "farm line" violates the Eighth Amendment rights of people working there and ...

The convicted killer accused of escaping from a Louisiana prison and hiding in the metro area says he just wants to go home. Derrick Groves told a judge he will not fight extradition during his first ...