Calvin Duncan is set to win the runoff for Orleans Parish Criminal Court Clerk after spending over 28 years wrongfully ...

The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on the Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West Feliciana Parish. As hundreds of ...

Detroit Lakes woman Jackie Shroyer sentenced in Angola for husband's murder; convicted as mastermind, leaving five children ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to participate in its prison rodeo, the last remaining in the country. Always ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety says the body of an inmate was found inside his cell at Angola on Tuesday. Maddow Blog | Republicans think they’ve uncovered a story that’s ‘bigger than ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Advocates for prison reform were in Albany on Tuesday, calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Omnibus Prison Reform Act into law. The bill would require correctional facilities to ...

Utica, N.Y. — A jury found a former New York state corrections officer guilty in the brutal beating death of an inmate last winter in a Central New York prison, while acquitting two other ...

Judges at the Court of Appeal retire to consider their decision in the case of Gavin Plumb He's serving a life sentence for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby - and is ...