News & Commentary

It was a moment we never thought we’d see: our client, an asylum seeker with severe disabilities, boarding a plane to meet his sponsor family in New Jersey.

Like similar laws around the country, the Louisiana law is an abortion ban in disguise.

Here are five facts about pretrial detention you should know.

Here’s the latest on four important cases challenging unjust laws and defending the rights of incarcerated people across the state

​​​​​​​News that local sheriff’s deputies recently completed a training with federal immigration authorities should be troubling to every resident of Terrebonne Parish.

The Trump administration has undertaken a massive and secretive expansion of its mass-detention state – right in our own backyard.

Ramon Torres had been a U.S. citizen for nearly ten years when he was detained for four days on an immigration hold – despite having a U.S. passport, a Louisiana driver’s license, and a Social Security card, and despite that fact that a court ordered his release.

The state that recently shed its title as prison capital of the world is now at risk of becoming the detention capital of the world.

A new report proves that the degrading conditions in solitary confinement continue to harm people and communities.