The ACLU of Louisiana and American Civil Liberties Union filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal court seeking the release of Jessica Patricia Barahona-Martinez, a single mother and LGBTQ asylum seeker from El Salvador who has been held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...

BATON ROUGE — New court filings reveal for the first time that children — almost all Black boys — are being placed in routine solitary confinement for 72 hours when they are detained in the former death row building of the nation’s largest adult maximum security prison...

NEW ORLEANS — The ACLU of Louisiana, the American Civil Liberties Union, and coalition partners today called for action to address the issue of overdetention of those convicted under Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law...

NEW ORLEANS – The Department of Justice has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Corrections routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

NEW ORLEANS — The ACLU of Louisiana and the law firm Wilson Sonsini sent a letter today to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the lack of access to counsel within Louisiana’s prison system.

NEW ORLEANS — Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour providing vital public service and prison maintenance services, according to a comprehensive nationwide report released by the national American Civil Liberties Union.

NEW ORLEANS – The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice today passed HB 46, a bill that could significantly reduce Louisiana’s pretrial incarceration rate.

NEW ORLEANS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana today announced strong support of legislation that would limit the amount of time individuals can be incarcerated without charge to five days in most cases and 30 days for more serious offenses.