Louisiana’s over-incarceration is part of a deeply rooted pattern
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 1, 2023
(Reuters) - A recent U.S. Justice Department report on a decade-old practice in Louisiana of deliberately keeping people in jail for months, sometimes years, past their release date reads as though officials are actively working to reclaim the mantle of “world's prison capital.”
Louisiana had the highest incarceration rates in the country