incarceration

The traveling exhibit includes artwork, letters and audio from people incarcerated on Alabama’s death row.

On today’s episode, we speak with 17-year-old Alex Brock about his journey from being born deaf in Ukraine to playing high school football in Louisiana. We also learn about a nonprofit group working to help incarcerated parents play an active role in their kids’ lives from behind bars.

The program aims to teach the art of political influence and policymaking to formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones.

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.

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.

Louisiana is taking steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus in state prisons and jails.On Tuesday, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux…

On any given day there are an estimated 12,000 people in Louisiana being held in parish jails awaiting trial. For the most part, these are people who…

People currently on parole, probation or in prison can’t vote in Louisiana. A bill from Rep. Pat Smith (D-Baton Rouge) would change that. Once someone is…

In 1883, the federal government banned debtors prisons in the United States. In 1972, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that "pay or…

"These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made," Obama said after meeting with inmates in Oklahoma City.