The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A full-time employee with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has been suspended. In a statement, the department confirmed Director of Mental ...

Alsaysia Bates, a former LSP corrections sergeant, was arrested for malfeasance in office after contraband cell phones were ...

Louisiana is paying — and getting federal reimbursement for — a $949,000 monthly fee to house hundreds of immigration ...

In some cases, Louisiana has taken so long to convict defendants, calculate their sentences and then let them out of prison that they end up spending more time behind bars than their sentence requires ...

ST. GABRIEL, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections confirmed two inmate deaths at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center this week. Officials identified the inmates as Kavon ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — As a strong cold front hits southeast Louisiana, state fire officials are warning residents to follow home heating safety tips and check smoke alarms. Chief Bryan J. Adams, ...