Federal judge Brian A. Jackson certified the prison labor case as a class action in late December. A lawsuit alleges the ...
A federal judge has ordered the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections to keep heat safety measures in place another 90 days for field workers at the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. U ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — A New Orleans-based human rights group was able to get a Louisiana federal court to renew a preliminary injunction requiring the state’s corrections officials to issue a “heat alert ...