How Oil Money Turned Louisiana Into the Prison Capital of the World

A series of events in the 1970s led to the state’s penal system becoming intertwined with the swings of its oil economy.

On October 14, 2023, Louisiana elected far right candidate Jeff Landry to the governor’s mansion. As the state’s current attorney general, Landry (a former police officer and sheriff’s deputy) has made headlines for his creation of an anti-crime policing task force for New Orleans, suing the state to block clemency appeals by those on death row, and advocating to make public the criminal records...

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