That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...

The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...

Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...

Louisiana is challenging a federal decision to slash the cost of many phone calls from prison, which advocates cheered as a way for loved ones to help incarcerated people better reintegrate into ...

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for ...

a location which the state Department of Corrections highlights as problematic. “The crumbling of the concrete, the rusting of all of the metal,” state Secretary of Corrections Kellie Wasko ...