Louisiana: A rare state that looks enviously at Texa...
Sunday May 20 | via Grits for Breakfast
In its weeklong series, " Louisiana Incarcerated ," the New Orleans Time-Picayune describes how Louisiana has overtaken Texas as the nation's incarceration leader, posting this graphic as evidence: And here's a graphic describing two key reasons Texas' prison population has leveled off: Reduced probation and parole revocations. Comment?
Houston stops helping Louisiana fill beds in its for...
Sunday May 20 | via NOLA.com
For five years, the mighty Harris County Jail in Houston and the mundane LaSalle Correctional Center, 238 miles away in Louisiana, carried on a long-distance relationship built on mutual dependency. Comment?