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• 28-months for last inmate in Orleans Parish Prison contraband video scandal

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  George Anderson, 50, entered a guilty plea on two counts of possession of contraband inside the prison

• Death sentence reversed in killing of CO

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  Judge overturned death sentence given to one of five inmates convicted of killing CO during a failed escape attempt

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• La. expects decline in prison population by 2018

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  Louisiana anticipates only have 38,077 behind bars in 2018 if it remains on the same track it is now

• La. inmate says state conducts illegal body searches

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  The inmate is Albert Woodfox, 67, one of the Louisiana prisoners supporters have dubbed the "Angola Three"

• La. corrections officers shoot escaping convict

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  Was on a crew working the grounds of the prison when he began running and ignored two COs' warning shots and calls to stop

• Did the La. DOC trick a hospital into supplying drug for execution cocktail?

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  Hospital alleges that it did not know what the state intended to use the drug for, but also declined to ask

• La. warden considers ending inmate's 28-year stint in solitary

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  Inmate who's spent majority of sentence in solitary confinement may find himself released to general population

• Orleans Parish Prison video shows inmates snorting drugs

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  New video shows inmates with drugs and a contraband cell phone, which follows a similar viral video

• La. inmate pulls shank from bible, injures 3

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  Was jumping from table to table with a Bible in his hands, and lashed out when COs tried to restrain him

• La. inmate breaks through prison wall, escapes

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  Used a locker lid to chip away at bricks around a window while other inmates made noise to cover the sounds

• Weapons, bulletproof vests missing from La. DOC

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  Probation and parole division has the largest amount of unlocated weapons and bulletproof vests

• Hundreds of bicycles going to Angola for inmate program

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  Inmates will refurbish the bikes for a bike giveaway in New Orleans

• Appeal rejected for Texas death row inmate Newbury

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  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal for Donald Newbury

• La. officers commended for saving inmate's life

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  Applied a tourniquet to inmate's leg to control bleeding after inmate injured himself

• 4 La. deputies jailed in inmate's beating

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  Investigators determined that two of the deputies beat the man in a jail cell while the other two watched and did and said nothing

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