Prison

The ruling reverses a lower court decision that called for a more comfortable death row experience.

An inmate makes a break for it only to return to jail with food and drink for himself and his fellow prisoners.

Well, if FOX was willing to give The X-Files revival a second go, you’d better believe more Prison Break is on deck. The network is keeping mum, but star Dominic Purcell seems to be laying plans for another breakout.

The former sandwich pitchman adopts the stance of a possible domestic terror group in his motion to get out of jail.

Nearly 50 years ago, a Louisiana was sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse. But after a judge overturned his conviction, he is walking out of prison Wednesday morning a free man.

Tuesday, WBRZ reported that a 13-year-old girl had been raped by an inmate at the Angola Prison Rodeo during last weekend of the October 2017 rodeo. The state prison system has taken a defensive position after the report.

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for throwing a rock through a window of a Social Security Administration office.

I thought drug dealers made a lot of money? How could they qualify for food stamps and welfare, to begin with?

Several Acadiana corrections officials are going to prison.

Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez has reportedly killed himself, while in prison.

Eleven inmates are charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.

Jared Fogle visited Townsquare Lafayette a few years ago. He was on a promotional tour for Subway. I posed for a picture with him. He wasn't friendly. I thought he was a little weird, but I had no inkling that he was a pedophile...

Details are sketchy at this time, but Angola prison warden Burl Cain is the subject of a criminal investigation.

The inmate was taken to University Hospital and Clinics yesterday morning to be treated for an illness.

I read this story on Facebook a few months back about a local resident who helped a homeless ex-con, and it reminded me that, no matter how bad my day gets, there is someone not as fortunate having a harder time. Here is the story, copy/pasted directly from Facebook: September 12, 2014 Worth your time to read...

Louisiana still has the highest incarceration rate in the U.S., a number well ahead of Mississippi, the state that comes in second.

You don't hear this kind of story every day. A renegade group of kittens broke into the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Fort Ann, New York. The crafty critters entered through the prison's basement and quickly won the hearts of the inmates and prison personnel alike.