Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi are all being held in ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana. Jena represents the nexus of white supremacy, prison profiteering, and state repression. But…
The Appeal found a system culture of abuse and mismanagement at the Winn Correctional Center, an ICE jail in Louisiana. Biden’s administration has kept people detained there against the wishes…
Incarcerated laborers on Angola’s Farm Line face “substantial risk of injury or death” during extreme heat, a federal judge ruled this week, ordering corrections officials to make policy changes to…
By Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The…
By Kathy Spillar / Ms. Magazine Even as we wait for U.S. Supreme Court decisions in two cases set to come down this month that could have massive impacts on…
By Markian Hawryluk / KFF Health News Steven Garner doesn’t like to talk about the day that changed his life. A New Orleans barroom altercation in 1990 escalated to the…
Concerns over working conditions and patient care amidst hospital consolidation drove Louisiana’s largest union victory since 1993.
In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.
A series of events in the 1970s led to the state’s penal system becoming intertwined with the swings of its oil economy.
An ongoing legal fight to move youth out of the state’s most notorious adult prison highlights a system plagued by budget cuts, staffing shortages and abuse for years.
Louisiana is the only state where every Republican and Democratic woman senator voted to remove reproductive rights.
Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.
The temporary injunction bars government agencies from suppressing free speech.
After seeing firsthand how the juvenile justice system affected their relatives, advocates are pushing for alternatives to youth incarceration and working to raise awareness.Growing up, Tamia Cenance could not fully…
Wardens and industries that rely on prison labor will undoubtably argue that their “work programs” do not constitute slavery, but it should be up to the courts, the public and…
