5. Louisiana paroled nine prisoners to deport them. We found that at least two have been deported, while two others are being held at a new immigration detention facility. But neither ICE nor the Landry admin would answer questions about the other five. www.propublica.org/article/loui...

4. To help fulfill Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Louisiana has taken aggressive steps to deliver. These actions include granting state agencies the authority to conduct certain ICE duties and paroling prisoners in order to deport them.

3. One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft. Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.

It was the last time she heard from him.

2. One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board.

“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
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13- The Landry administration did not respond to requests for comment. A former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana who prosecuted the case in 1980, did not respond to requests for comment.

12- Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/loui...

11–“When you’re sent to prison with a life sentence, they send you here to die,” said Gray. “After 45 years, I’m no closer to freedom than the day I walked into this place.”

10–Gray has a court hearing Aug. 26 that could decide his fate, but there is a growing chance he could spend the remainder of his life in prison, even though his conviction would be unconstitutional today.

9–But Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law last year that guts the ability of prosecutors to broker such deals, cutting off the last remaining avenue of relief for those imprisoned by nonunanimous juries.

8–In 2022, the New Orleans DA proposed a potential deal to Gray’s attorneys that would have secured his release: If he pleaded guilty to forcible rape, he would walk. The lesser charge carried a maximum sentence of 40 years; Gray had already served 41.

7. 1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled as unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.