By C1 Staff
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana will be an outlier come 2018 as it expects its prison population to decrease, while other states are predicting an increase, according to a report by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Times-Picayune reports that Louisiana anticipates only have 38,077 behind bars in 2018 if it remains on the same track it is now.
Most states project a 3 percent increase across the country.
Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate of any state, putting 847 people behind bars for every 100,000 residents.