Louisiana often holds inmates past their release date, DOJ lawsuit claims
Everything Old Is New Again!
Nothing to see here, just that awful Biden administration daring to pursue justice for people w/o money or power. Not to worry, won't be any more of that under corporate rule. Not even after this starts happening to honkies & crackers too. Also coming soon: Debtors' prison. ++schadenfreude!In a joint statement provided to The Associated Press, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill blamed the problem on the “failed criminal justice reforms” advanced by “the past administration.”“This past year, we have taken significant action to keep Louisianans safe and ensure those who commit the crime, also do the time,” the statement reads. “The State of Louisiana is committed to preserving the constitutional rights of Louisiana citizens.”
The Republican state officials also characterized the effort as a last-ditch lawsuit by outgoing President Joe Biden, reasoning that the incoming administration of Donald Trump would not have allowed the case to be filed.
Advocates have repeatedly challenged the conditions in Louisiana’s prison system, which includes the country’s largest maximum-security prison, known as Angola, where incarcerated individuals toil under the blazing sun picking vegetables by hand at what was once a slave plantation".
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