Officials confirmed inmates at the West Feliciana Detention Center returned Monday morning, April 21, after being evacuated over the weekend due to a carbon monoxide leak.

What do locals think of the ICE facility in Jena? "I feel like this town has had a lot of drama," one said. "It’s put on the ...

According to Sheriff Joseph Lopinto, deputies found an unresponsive adult male inmate inside a housing unit around 7 a.m.

LaMa Animal Rescue is the group that led the rescue efforts at the hoarder situation in Doyline a few months ago. Saturday, LaMa held a grand opening celebration and fundraiser for its new animal ...

Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi are home to 14 of the 20 largest immigration detention centers in the country. Democratic and Republican administrations have long used them as a hub for immigrant ...

Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk and Badar Khan Suri were arrested by immigration officials and, in a matter of hours, were sent to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas — more than a thousand ...

A 73-year-old Lafayette grandfather who was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week is back home after spending a week in an ICE detention ... center in Evangeline Parish ...

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention. By Allison McCann Alexandra ...

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts, advocates and attorneys say they are seeing higher levels of overcrowding at detention centers. And as WYPR's Emily ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national, has been in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a detention facility in Basile, Louisiana, since last week. But she was originally ...