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Kat Stromquist speaks with author Lydia Pelot-Hobbs to discuss the history of Louisiana’s mass incarceration problem and efforts to push back against it.
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The state's Office of Juvenile Justice says the youths were transferred Friday morning to a juvenile facility in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana.
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The state of Louisiana has been given one week to shut down a temporary youth detention center at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola following an order from a federal judge Friday.
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The annual NOLA to Angola bike ride returned this month to help the nonprofit The First 72+ fight recidivism. Participants share what the ride means to them.
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Henry Montgomery, whose sentencing was the subject of a 2016 Supreme Court case that decided inmates sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for crimes committed as juveniles could have their sentences overturned, has been granted parole, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
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Lester Pearson, 84, is a "10-6 lifer," one of roughly 60 men who took plea deals for life sentences with the chance of parole after 10 years and six months. During the first decade of their incarceration, laws changed and they were left to serve much lengthier prison sentences than they bargained for. After 57 years, Pearson was finally released on Tuesday, Oct. 19.
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Burl Cain may be gone as Angola’s warden, but he’s far from forgotten, as the Legislative Audit Advisory Council looked into allegations of…
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Glenn Ford, 64, was convicted in 1984 for first degree murder and given a death sentence. New evidence proves he wasn't at the crime scene.
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Herman Wallace, who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement after his conviction on murder charges related to a 1972 prison riot, is now suffering from liver cancer. A U.S. district judge in Louisiana ruled that Wallace had not received a fair trial.