Louisiana, Nation’s Biggest Jailer, Is Poised To Overhaul Criminal Sentencing Laws
Business executives and lobbies in Louisiana have provided support for those pushing the changes, which makes it an easier political…
Business executives and lobbies in Louisiana have provided support for those pushing the changes, which makes it an easier political…
Jay Lapeyre, with Smart on Crime Louisiana, talks about the criminal justice reform package currently being debated in the Legislature.…
With half the legislative session over, tough-on-crime political rhetoric has clearly won many victories over data-driven policy.
“We want to ensure that we are still getting significant savings from these bills,” says Abhay Patel, interim executive director of…
Louisiana is doing criminal justice reform the right way. The Justice Reinvestment Task Force package will guarantee that individuals who…
Louisiana’s district attorneys have falsely claimed that they were left out of the process for developing evidence-based criminal justice reforms.…
Legislators took tough votes when they approved the incarceration reform measures in 2011, 2012 and 2015. This year’s crop of…
We can still hold people accountable while following practices proven to work in other states. Emotions should not derail us.…
It’s significant that leading members of the state’s business and religious communities support the reform bills, as do some of…
“There appears to be an appetite among conservatives to get ‘right-on-crime,’” said Vikrant Reddy, a senior research fellow with CKI.