She was sentenced to 60 years in prison ... education opportunity for women incarcerated in Louisiana, according to the nonprofit. Only about 600 of 5,000 state and federal prisons and local ...

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first ...

The state, some prison phone companies and the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association, a powerful lobbying group with major sway in state criminal justice policy, argue the new rules are arbitrary.

Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; ...

For seven years, the only full-time gynecologist at the California Institution for Women, a high-security prison facility in ... of lawsuits against the state in the last two years over claims ...

The charge carries penalties of up to five years in prison ... of state abortion bans in recent years. One survey last year found that thousands of women are still getting abortions in Louisiana.