News | Jesse Katz | February 15, 2000
Presumed innocent, they shuffle into the sooty, granite fortress on Tulane Avenue every morning, ankles shackled, hands chained to their hips. Every evening, at least a dozen leave Orleans Parish Criminal District Court as felons, an exodus of the desperate, foolish, heartless and addicted.
News | December 20, 1999
The State Department said Sunday that Cuba has agreed to take the Cuban detainees who surrendered peacefully after holding hostages at a jail for nearly a week.
News | March 26, 1997
About 3,000 inmates were temporarily evacuated to higher ground as waters from the swollen Mississippi River threatened to undermine a levee protecting the nation's largest prison farm.
News | July 6, 1991
Problem inmates who throw food at guards at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola may soon be served splatter-proof meals. Under a plan submitted by state officials to a federal judge, all ingredients in meals at the prison's discipline camp would be mixed together and baked into a loaf.
News | January 6, 1989
Nearly 600 state prison inmates were given their freedom just after midnight Thursday under pressure from the federal courts to ease overcrowding in Louisiana's lockups.
News | December 13, 1988
A new $17-million federal prison was dedicated Monday in this western Louisiana town, replacing the detention center that rioting Cubans burned in a night of terror 13 months ago.
News | June 20, 1988
A man armed with a shotgun walked into a sheriff's office Sunday and killed a radio dispatcher, then freed two prisoners in the lockup, authorities said.