Louisiana’s annual performance report on the criminal justice reform package approved in 2017 finds it has saved the state over 12-million dollars, twice the anticipated savings. Department of Corrections Secretary James LeBlanc…
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Leblanc says they are reinvesting the savings into programs that help to reduce recidivism.

Congressman Clay Higgins was among a bipartisan delegation that toured a facility in McAllen, Texas that processes immigrants coming across the U-S Mexico border. The Republican from St. Landry Parish says after seeing first-hand how the operations at the border work, he believes many media outlets are casting the treatment of immigrants in the wrong light…
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Higgins says the immigrants are being handled as compassionately as possible.

The national unemployment rate rose slightly in June, but Louisiana is on the decline, powered by a robust job market in New Orleans. Matt Doyle has more.
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