Drug, alcohol abuse goes untreated in many ex-prisoners Most ex-cons are unlikely to receive substance use treatment following their release from prison, even though odds are high they are struggling with addiction, a new study finds. 04/25/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Will a state supreme court challenge end California’s ‘racist’ record-setting death row for good? Will a state supreme court challenge end California’s ‘racist’ record-setting death row for good? - California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who ... 04/24/2024 - 10:17 am | View Link
Landry’s Power Play Over Public Defense in Louisiana Changes to indigent defense in Louisiana could stretch an already-underfunded system and erode the quality of representation for poor people across the state. 04/19/2024 - 5:22 am | View Link
How a new law could curb New Orleans DA on relief for prisoners Few judges have balked at stamping prisoners’ freedom in cases in which ... But I think it would have been a much longer process, that he would have been in prison for much longer, probably ... 03/31/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Former head of youth center with problematic past to run Louisiana juvenile justice, sources say Outgoing state juvenile justice director Curtis Nelson said his agency could not afford to pay the additional $600,000 ... of freedom to hundreds of prisoners across the country. 02/1/2024 - 4:20 am | View Link