Calvin Duncan spent nearly 30 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Last week, he won the election for clerk of court in New Orleans Parish, a role he calls his dream job.

A prisoners' rights group is challenging the constitutionality of an agricultural labor program at Louisiana's notorious ...

The JustPod is a podcast of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, hosted by Justin Danilewitz and Geonard Butler. This ...

ANGOLA, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - A section of the Louisiana State Penitentiary undergoing emergency repairs is being used to house Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, Gov. Jeff Landry ...

MAGA world is yet again trying to market a prison where it will lock up people targeted by the president’s bigoted anti-immigrant crackdown. First, there was “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility in the ...

The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison, could soon house immigrant detainees for the Trump administration. Plans call for Angola to reopen an unused ...

ANGOLA, La. — A section of Louisiana’s most notorious prison, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, has a new name and purpose. The former "Camp J" is now called "Louisiana Lockup," a U.S.