Oct./Nov. 2023
HCR 89 (2020) Report on Recommendations for Revised Jail Standards, Oversight, and Programming (Oct./Nov. 2023) is an extensive report by the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at Univ. of Texas-Austin recommending specific mandatory standards for Louisiana prisons and jails based on over 18 months of intensive research and comparative review of 12 sets of correctional standards. This file includes the cover letters from the report authors, the standards, and the transmittal letter from the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
June 2023
Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars 2015-2021 provides the first close look at deaths during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021) and builds upon the first report analyzing deaths behind bars 2015-2021.
May 2023
HCR 85 (2021) Pregnancy and maternal health for incarcerated women (May 2023) is a report by the Louisiana Public Health Institute. The report details information collected on pregnancy outcomes, implementation of laws providing free access to sanitary items and limiting shackling and solitary confinement for pregnant women, and identifies challenges for healthcare for incarcerated women.
Nov. 2022
Louisiana Justice: Pre-Trial, Incarceration, and Reentry provides a high-level system overview of Louisiana’s justice system from pretrial to incarceration to re-entry and includes new data and insights from local advocates. Data included provides the most recent snapshot of Louisiana’s prison population and the first close look at the impact of multi billing, or “habitual offender sentencing,” including significant disparities of the use of the multi bill in Louisiana.
Nov. 2022
Opportunities for Philanthropy within Louisiana’s Justice System is a companion report and includes recommendations for philanthropic organizations to support reform.
June 2021
Louisiana Deaths Behind Bars 2015-2019 provides the first collection and analysis of deaths behind bars 2015-2019.
May 2021
Adequacy of Healthcare Provided in Louisiana State Prisons is a study brief requested by the Louisiana Legislature (HCR 85 – 2020). The brief was authored by Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Louisiana State University, and Voice of the Experienced.
May 2018
The Impact of 300 Years of Jail Conditions, published by the Data Center, provides a brief overview of incarceration in New Orleans since the city’s founding.
May 1976
The Study of Adult Corrections in Louisiana, written by the LA Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, provides an overview of the operations of Louisiana’s prison system in the 1970’s.