There is “reasonable cause” to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely holds inmates in prison beyond their legal release date, in violation of their rights, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a press release on Jan. 25, the DOJ said that an investigation into the state’s prison system had found that since at least 2012, more than a quarter of the people that were supposed to be released from LDOC’s custody every year had instead been held past their release date.
This, they said, is in violation of the due process protections in the Constitution….