NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Federal monitors warned last year that Sheriff Susan Hutson wasn’t properly segregating high-risk violent inmates and that her deputies often left housing units completely ...
High-security inmates at 19 prisons went on a weekslong lockdown last month after two prisoners were killed at the East Texas lockup that houses death row. Just outside of Livingston, the Polunsky ...
During his long stay at the Orleans Parish lockup before he escaped last month, detainee Lenton Vanburen had racked up criminal charges in six cases for jail violations in less than two years, ...