Almost a month has passed since East Baton Rouge Parish began sending arrested 17-year-olds to a facility upstate, after Sheriff Sid Gautreaux deemed the local jail unfit to house them.
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported shooting that happened early Saturday, April 27. Casey Rayborn Hicks, the public information officer for EBRSO, said deputies responded to a call about shots fired around 5:15 a.m. Saturday. When they arrived, they were told the victim had left the […]
A new law in Louisiana requiring 17-year-olds to be booked into adult prison instead of juvenile detention centers went into effect on Friday, April 19.