Taxpayers save as La. prison population drops
(WorldNews Entertainment)

BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana continued to see better-than-predicted results from the second year of its comprehensive criminal justice reforms, recording $17.8 million in savings from a further drop in the state`s prison population from July 1, 2018 to June 30 of this year.Department of Corrections officials reported Friday that during that period, the state prison population fell by 1,400, down to a total of 31,756 -- a point the state has not seen since the 1990s. The savings from ......