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Nearly 50 years ago, a Louisiana was sentenced to life in prison in the kidnapping and rape of a nurse. But after a judge overturned his conviction, he is walking out of prison Wednesday morning a free man.

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for throwing a rock through a window of a Social Security Administration office.

I thought drug dealers made a lot of money? How could they qualify for food stamps and welfare, to begin with?

Several Acadiana corrections officials are going to prison.

The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the world, and Louisiana locks up more people than any other state in the country.

Louisiana's Chief Justice wants to see the prison population lowered and low level inmates given a chance at job training instead of incarceration.

Jared Fogle visited Townsquare Lafayette a few years ago. He was on a promotional tour for Subway. I posed for a picture with him. He wasn't friendly. I thought he was a little weird, but I had no inkling that he was a pedophile...

Should a 17 year old offender be sent to an adult prison? A recent study conducted on behalf of the state legislature showed some interesting results.

A UNO Professor hopes a new grant will allow him to find a better alternative than prison for people who break the law.

28 year old Cordera Dean Felix of Lafayette has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for possessing a stolen handgun.

Two men were seen walking near a rail yard headed to Pennsylvania on June 13.

Fontenot will be sentenced by District Court Judge Edward Rubin on July 8th.

Johnson was selling the meth at various retail locations in Many.

In 1985 Bradshaw had pleaded guilty to kidnapping, forcible rape and robbery in California.

In addition Menzie was sentenced to four years supervised release.

During her shift she would create fake orders costing less than $25

Folse applied for total disability in the 1990's due to a slip and fall.

A U.S. law enforcement official identified the man as an FBI agent and said he was there as part of an anti-corruption operation.

State Treasurer John Kennedy is urging the Department of Corrections to re-open the Phelps Correctional Center as an inmate charter school.

Louisiana prison officials have submitted a plan to keep death row inmates cool this summer. The plan is under review and includes air conditioning and cold showers for those convicted of society's most heinous crimes.