Louisiana fights to keep teens in Angola

By Jessica Williams | Capitol News Bureau Editor​ ​ ​

Angola youth: State officials are fighting to keep teens housed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, after a federal judge last week ordered the state to remove the teens, Jacqueline DeRobertis reports. Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick has said the conditions at Angola are intolerable. 

BR DA opposes clemency: East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hilar Moore has asked a judge to stop a state board from considering clemency requests filed earlier this summer, James Finn reports. Moore says the Louisiana death row prisoners who filed those requests are ineligible for clemency.  

SSI savings bill: U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is pushing a bill that would let disabled people save up to $12,000 and still receive monthly checks from the Supplemental Security Income program, Mark Ballard reports. At present, federal rules only allow those people to save up to $10,000.