criminal justice reform

Much like health care and higher education in Louisiana, the Department of Corrections is facing deep budget cuts next fiscal year, which would leave them…

A task force looking at dividing crimes into classes is close to drafting its final recommendations.“I think we could propose having Class D be a…

How to summarize the year 2017 in state politics? Somewhat less trauma, but much of the same drama.For the second year in a row, we had…

Unsurprisingly, Gov. John Bel Edwards delivered a positive review of 2017 during his year-end press conference Wednesday."Despite the challenges that lie…

"What we are tasked with accomplishing is to create a system for over 600 felony offenses," explains former U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, who is chairing…

Kerry Myers served on the Criminal Justice Reinvestment Task Force and says he’s dismayed at the people watching and waiting for the reforms to…

"We've been told by the United States Supreme Court, 'You guys have to fix this,'" Baton Rouge Sen. Dan Claitor said, when he brought this year's bill to…

Many aspects of Louisiana’s criminal justice overhaul go into effect today.“The prison population grew exponentially, and it became — quite candidly — a…

State Representative Patricia Smith of Baton Rouge was a featured speaker at the U.S. Justice Action Network’s seminar on incarcerated women’s issues…

The House worked long and hard Monday, passing Senate bills before the session countdown clock required shifting to a two-thirds majority vote on all…