Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Prisoners

Laws passed at the behest of Gov. Jeff Landry threaten to further strain the already-paltry prison medical system.

Janice Parker walked into the medical ward at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola several years back, looking for her son, Kentrell Parker. He should have been easy to find. The 45-year-old New Orleans native had been bedridden since an injury in a prison football game left him paralyzed from the neck down more than a decade earlier. His bed was usually positioned near a window by the...

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