With GOP in charge, Louisiana House moves to almost completely eliminate parole

Protesters filled the ground floor of the state Capitol last Tuesday during hearings on stricter crime laws. (LSU Manship School News Service photo)
Louisiana, which tops lists for both incarceration and crime, moved Friday toward almost entirely eliminating parole and dramatically shrinking good-behavior sentence reductions. The House passed a slew of bills by Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner, the new chair of the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice, who has seized the opportunity provided by a unified, GOP-controlled…

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