Nearly 27% of all inmates held in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Corrections were held past their release dates over a four-month period, according to a Justice Department report.
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In this Oct. 14, 2013, file photo, a prisoner walks thru a fenced section toward a guard tower at Angola Prison, in Louisiana.that between January and April 2022, 26.8% of the people, or 1,108 people, released from LDOC’s custody were held past their release dates. 24% of the people were held for over 90 days past their release dates, and the median number of days over detained was 29, the report added. There were nearly 4,200 people in custody overall.
"LDOC is deliberately indifferent to the systemic over detention of people in its custody," the Justice Department said. In this Oct. 14, 2013, file photo, a prisoner's hands are shown inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana.The agency's over detention violates the 14th amendment which guarantees people that are incarcerated in jail and prison not to be detained beyond their release dates, the Justice Department said.
The DOJ said that LDOC has been on notice of the problem for 10 years but has done nothing to fix it.
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