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The goal of the prison system in Louisiana is to provide safety for offenders, staff and for the community around the facilities. The Department of Correction of Louisiana wants to diminish public risk when they release the inmates of their units, that's why they provide basic services to the offenders, such as health treatments and quality mental health services in particular.
They guarantee appropriate food, clothing and a shelter. The Department also propose a moral rehabilitation program to facilitate the future life of the offenders.
If you are a victim or a survivor of a crime which took place in the Louisiana State, you can contact the Crime Victim Services Bureau and request to apply for a Victim Offender Dialog. What is a VOD? It's a program which allow a victim of a crime to talk face to face to their offender, after a long process of preparation with a VOD facilitator who will hear your story and determine what do you really want from this confrontation. Death penalty is legal in Louisiana. Men's death row population are incarcerated in the Louisiana state penitentiary, also known as 'Angola'. It was nicknamed 'the Alcatraz of the South' by the Louisianians and it's the largest maximum security prison in the US, in fact more the 5000 offenders are currently in the facility. Women's death row inmates are waiting in the Louisiana Correctional Institute for women located in St Gabriel. The most famous offender in death row is Antoinette Frank, a former police officer who was convicted of a triple murder. |
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03, Jun 2012 - Jackson Follow the money on mass incarceration in Louisiana: A letter to the editor
Re: "Louisiana Incarcerated: How we built the world's prison capital,'' Page A1, May 13-20. Scott Threlkeld, The Times-PicayuneLaSalle Corrections owns and manages the Jackson Parish Correctional Center near Jonesboro, but it needs the sheriff as much as the sheriff needs...
03, Jun 2012 - Mandeville Rainy day fund part of ongoing budget negotiations - Houma Courier
An attempt to tap into Louisiana's "rainy day" fund to fill a $200 million ... The Senate Finance Committee has heard dire scenarios of prison closures, elimination of Medicaid programs and colleges pushed to financial emergency status if ...
03, Jun 2012 - Sex offenders fight for right to use Facebook - KEPR
And in Louisiana, a new law lets offenders use the Internet for ... was sentenced to 33 years in federal prison in January after pleading guilty to seven counts of production of child pornography. Xavier Von Erck, founder of Perverted Justice ...
03, Jun 2012 - St. Mary Parish Narcotics Arrest Report
The St. Mary Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force Funded by the Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission Through the Evangeline Law Enforcement Commission District Press Release The St. Mary Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force, consisting of St. Mary Sheriff Dept., Morgan City Police Dept., Franklin Police Dept., Baldwin Police Dept.., Berwick Police Dept., and Chitimacha Police Dept.. report the ...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Driver booked with 5 counts of vehicular homicide - FOX 8 News WVUE-TV
Louisiana State Police say a man coming home from celebrating his 30th birthday got into a wreck that killed five people. The accident happened on Highway 67 in Slaughter, north of Baton Rouge ... of the fifth victim Police arrest man for terrorizing ...
03, Jun 2012 - Benton Movie bits - Corvallis Gazette-Times
It's jail or the Navy, declares his Navy officer brother (Alexander ... travels on foot from Colorado to Louisiana to track down a mysterious woman whose picture he found in the middle of a combat zone in Iraq. Her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling), and ...
03, Jun 2012 - Opelousas St. Landry arrests - Eunice News
Mark Delaney Thomas, age 45, 244 Garnet Drive, Opelousas, LA, stop sign violation, no driver's license, bench warrant. Arrested by Louisiana State Police. Andre Marie Fuselier, age 28, 120 5th Street, Mamou, LA, probation violation. Gordan Broussard ...
03, Jun 2012 - Louisiana Incarcerated: Shelby Arabie, Model Prisoner
Shelby Arabie is serving âlife without paroleâ at Angola State Penitentiary but has been recommended for parole by the state Pardon Board. The move is strongly supported by Angola warden Burl Cain.
03, Jun 2012 - Hooks Allen Parish Resident Arrested for Second Offense Alligator Violation - KTAL
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents arrested a Basile man for an alleged alligator ... he found the alligator behind the front seat with a hook and line still in its mouth. Gaspard and a 15-year-old juvenile ...
03, Jun 2012 - Keithville Federal judge delays sentencing in hate crime case - KNOE TV8
They were scheduled for sentencing June 8. Prosecutors filed a motion in May seeking a delay. The motion was filed under seal. The reason for seeking the delay has not been made public. Latest Louisiana news, sports, business and entertainment Latest ...
03, Jun 2012 - Why is Louisiana the Prison Capital of the World?
By Stephanie Rabiner, Esq. on May 21, 2012 8:49 AM | No TrackBacks One out of every 86 adult Louisianans is currently behind bars. That's nearly double the national rate . It's also triple that of Iran, seven times that of China, and ten times that of Germany.
03, Jun 2012 - Raging bulls meet hardened criminals at Angola prison rodeo
Inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary are rewarded for good behaviour by being thrown to the bulls, so to speak, but prisoners and authorities say the opportunity to participate in a rodeo helps calm what was once "the bloodiest prison in America."
03, Jun 2012 - Springhill Cook travels south to stock meth kitchen - Minden Press-Herald
An Arkansas man crossed the line when he came to north Louisiana to stock his friend's meth lab. Michael Donovan Bradshaw, 50, of Camden, Arkansas, was arrested Friday by members ... Shawn Baker and Springhill detective Ronald Wedgeworth were alerted ...
03, Jun 2012 - Mandeville La. Senate backs $25.6B budget for next year - NECN
Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, who handles the bill as chairman of ... while public colleges would face another round of cuts. A state prison in northwest Louisiana would be closed. Private companies would be hired to run facilities for the developmentally ...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Closing Avoyelles, other state prisons would save $25 million, corrections head says
BATON ROUGE — Budget cuts imposed by the Louisiana House of Representatives could force the closure of the Avoyelles, Phelps and Rayburn prison facilities, Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc said today.
03, Jun 2012 - Lions fan pleads guilty to phoning in Superdome threat - Sporting News
NEW ORLEANS — A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to phoning in a bomb threat to the Louisiana Superdome during the New ... Payton faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The FBI arrested Payton in Detroit on Jan. 30.
03, Jun 2012 - Police probe similarities between 2 disappearances
Police in Bloomington say they have contacted authorities in Louisiana about their search for a college student whose disappearance has similarities to that of an Indiana University student who has been missing for nearly a year.
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Louisiana House leaves I.G. funding out of budget, rolls back prison privatization plan
BATON ROUGE -- As the debate over Louisiana's budget continues in the House, representatives have reaffirmed their commitment to stripping funding from the state Inspector General while rolling back a prison privatization plan. The $1.7 million that funds the Inspector...
03, Jun 2012 - Louisiana's prison system: What others are saying
The Times-Picayune is publishing an in-depth look at the Louisiana prison system and how it operates. Here is what others are saying obout the series: How Louisiana became the prison capitol of the world (Facing South) The world's highest rate...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Amnesty Intl asks: 'Where's the evidence?" about the Angola 3 - DAILY KOS
Today Albert Woodfox will appear in court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ... placed in solitary confinement in Closed Cell Restriction at Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola prison). A third man, Robert King, who was accused of a different ...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Lil Boosie Found Not Guilty In 2009 Murder
Rapper Lil Boosie has been behind bars for several years, facing a slew of different charges. But, he finally got some good news this week, when he was found not guilty in his murder case in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
03, Jun 2012 - Cost of Louisiana's death penalty - KSLA
Louisiana is among 33 states where the death penalty is legal, but as the price goes up all have seen dramatic declines in capital cases. "Many years ago the death penalty was used a whole lot more than it is now," said Calcasieu Parish District Attorney John DeRosier.
03, Jun 2012 - Iowa Bonnie & Clyde’s crime spree came to an end in a hail of bullets - New York Daily News
ending the Depression era crime and killing spree ... shot and killed on a Louisiana road. They dodged arrest in wild fashion on more than one occasion: A July 1933 shootout at an Iowa encampment left Clyde’s brother Buck mortally wounded.
03, Jun 2012 - Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson Surrenders To Serve 13-Year Sentence
Former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson surrendered to a federal penitentiary Friday to begin serving a 13-year sentence, according to reports.
03, Jun 2012 - GOOD News: Inmates put on play about Jesus
Convicted murderers and armed robbers put on a play about the lives of Jesus and his disciples this week at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
03, Jun 2012 - Fremont Police: Missing La. student seen in surveillance video - Fremont News-Messenger
Lafayette police released footage Friday night that they believe shows Shunick, a 22-year-old senior anthropology major at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, riding her bicycle in downtown Lafayette. Police said one segment of video shows the ...
03, Jun 2012 - Mandeville Rainy day fund part of ongoing La. budget talks - YAHOO!
(AP) — An attempt to tap into Louisiana's "rainy day" fund to fill a $200 million ... The Senate Finance Committee has heard dire scenarios of prison closures, elimination of Medicaid programs and colleges pushed to financial emergency status if the ...
03, Jun 2012 - House backs drug testing for welfare recipients - KNOE TV8
(AP) - The Louisiana House has agreed to ... plant could supply water to rural areas of both Bossier and Webster parishes. The study was the first leg of a seven-phase... A Shreveport businessman is in jail awaiting trial on charges that he concealed ...
03, Jun 2012 - Wolf Pack baseball team battled through rollercoaster years in WAC - Examiner
It was a league, after all, that stretched at various times from Louisiana to Hawaii and seemingly all points in between (New Mexico, northern California ... a plastic and rubber field surrounded by tall prison-like walls blocking everyone’s view who ...
03, Jun 2012 - Prison sentence reform efforts face tough opposition in the Legislature
Louisiana sheriffs, district attorneys and judges help shape the proposals
03, Jun 2012 - Gray Louisiana lawmakers send 'Caylee's Law' bills to Jindal - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
BATON ROUGE -- Casey Anthony's trial and subsequent acquittal are leading to changes in Louisiana law with a pair ... Bob Kostelka will make it a misdemeanor crime for caretakers to falsify information to police during a missing child investigation.
03, Jun 2012 - Louisiana has the highest imprisonment rate in the country - Raw Story
No place in America or the world has a larger prison population per person than the state of Louisiana, according to an explosive report from The Times-Picayune. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is not only the largest in the country ...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Man Accused in Fatal Crash was Drunk
Authorities say a Greensburg man accused of killing five people and injuring another two while driving drunk in East Feliciana Parish had a blood-alcohol content almost twice the legal limit. The Advocate reports ( http://bit.ly/L4yHei ) that Brett Gerald's blood-alcohol content was 0.15 percent, according to State Police spokesman Trooper Russell Graham II. In Louisiana, a blood-alcohol ...
03, Jun 2012 - Picayune woman charged in fatal accident
An accident early Sunday morning led to the death of a Hammond, La., woman and the arrest of a Picayune woman. According to a release from Troop L of the Louisiana State Police, the accident occurred at about 1 a.m. Sunday in the northbound lanes of Interstate 59 about a half mile south of the Louisiana Highway 1090/U.S. Highway 11 Pearl River exit in St. Tammany Parish. Arrested and charged ...
03, Jun 2012 - Lamar Co. receives Pre-K grant - KNOE TV8
Ascension Parish public schools will start a new kindergarten ... AG in Avandia drug case Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline has filed suit against Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, alleging that private attorneys hired by Caldwell to prosecute the ...
03, Jun 2012 - 7 arrested in alleged driveway work scam - Erie Times-News
Six adults from Louisiana and Texas were arrested ... Densmore was transferred to the Ascension Parish Jail to face pending charges in that parish. - Amelia Susan Densmore, 36, Prairieville; one count of racketeering. - Dakota Perry Densmore ...
03, Jun 2012 - Scott Sentencing set in false tax return case - KNOE TV8
Lesure was released on a bond pending sentencing. He faces a maximum possible penalty of 5 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Louisiana's social services ... Clark Hall's campaign is calling Scott Ellington a "weak" candidate because Ellington's ...
03, Jun 2012 - Louisiana House OKs abortion limit - Columbus Dispatch
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien and Columbus police have worked with the Innocence Project over the years to help ensure that innocent people are not in prison, Furbee said.
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge 7 Arrested in Alleged Louisiana Driveway Work Scam - ClaimsJournal.com
The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office says seven people have been arrested during the past month in an ... it started falling apart,” Jeane told WAFB television in Baton Rouge. The long driveway to his house has turned into gravel road ...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Louisiana House approves bills on abortion, museums, cabdriver killings
Baton Rouge -- Bills requiring that abortions be performed only by physicians, allowing the secretary of state's office to shutter museums because of a lack of funds and making the killing of a cabdriver first-degree murder passed the Louisiana House...
03, Jun 2012 - Baton Rouge Proposed cuts could close Avoyelles prison
BATON ROUGE -- If the Louisiana Senate does not restore budget cuts imposed by the House of Representatives, state Department of Corrections Secretary James Le Blanc says he would be forced to close the Avoyelles, Phelps and Rayburn state prison facilities.
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