Department of Corrections

Long-time David Wade Correctional Center Warden Retires

Assistant Warden and mental health practitioner selected to lead Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women

This week, the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) terminated former Louisiana State Penitentiary employee Lieutenant Barrett Boeker, and the West…

Monday, Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC) correctional officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola discovered a pistol during a shakedown…

A Louisiana prison worker is accused of trying to smuggle marijuana to inmates.News outlets report 29-year-old prison cadet Adrian T. King was arrested…

A federal judge has conditionally dismissed a lawsuit that claimed three ailing death row inmates in Louisiana were being subjected to cruel and unusual…

On the day Louisiana is releasing 19-hundred non-violent offenders, a state audit finds the Department of Corrections is not able to track offenders or…

On the day Louisiana is releasing 19-hundred non-violent offenders, a state audit finds the Department of Corrections is not able to track offenders or…