Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. Brining ...

Every Sunday in October and one weekend in April, dozens of inmates in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola volunteer to ...

In May, 10 inmates escaped from a jail in New Orleans, highlighting the facility’s chronic problems. Derrick Groves was at ...

More than 10,000 people a week are released from America’s jails and prisons with the hope of starting a new life.

Derrick Groves, the last of ten inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Jail in May, was apprehended after a tip to Crimestoppers led police to his location, ending a months-long search.

The last of 10 prisoners who escaped nearly five months ago from a New Orleans jail has been captured at a home in Atlanta, ...

Illinois officials have been in court to halt President Donald Trump’s federalization of the state’s National Guard, which ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison.

President Donald J. Trump's administration is illegally using the ICE detention center to punish immigrants twice for the same crime, the lawsuit says.

Derrick Groves, one of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center earlier this year, has been returned to Louisiana, according to Louisiana State Police.

The immigration detainees sent to a notorious Louisiana prison last month are being punished for crimes for which they have already served time, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday in a ...