William Most
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“In Louisiana, where defendants can spend years in pretrial detention because of court delays, it is not uncommon for an inmate to have served out their sentence — or even served extra time — by the time a judge hands down that sentence.”
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These inmates claim Louisiana held them too long. Now they can file a class action lawsuit.
The lawsuits allege Louisiana has routinely held inmates past their release dates for years.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“In Louisiana, where defendants can spend years in pretrial detention because of court delays, it is not uncommon for an inmate to have served out their sentence — or even served extra time — by the time a judge hands down that sentence.”
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“This is a major victory for accountability — and we hope it is the beginning of the end of the state’s pattern of illegally imprisoning thousands of Louisianans at taxpayer expense,” William Most, one of the attorneys on the case, said in a statement.
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These inmates claim Louisiana held them too long. Now they can file a class action lawsuit.
The lawsuits allege Louisiana has routinely held inmates past their release dates for years.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“This is a major victory for accountability — and we hope it is the beginning of the end of the state’s pattern of illegally imprisoning thousands of Louisianans at taxpayer expense,” William Most, one of the attorneys on the case, said in a statement.
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“Democracy only works if state officials are transparent with voters about what they are being asked to vote on. This proposed amendment flunks the basic honesty test,” said William Most, lead attorney on the case.
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Lawsuit challenges Louisiana ballot measure seeking tax law rewrite • Louisiana Illuminator
A group of Louisiana voters filed suit seeking to halt a vote on a state constitutional amendment to drastically change state tax law.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“Democracy only works if state officials are transparent with voters about what they are being asked to vote on. This proposed amendment flunks the basic honesty test,” said William Most, lead attorney on the case.
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Reposted by William Most
So, years ago, a scrappy young civil rights attorney, William Most (@williammost.bsky.social), was at a party with a bunch of Orleans Public Defenders & overheard that their clients kept getting kidnapped by DOC. He sued the hell out of them again and again for years.
That’s how this happened.
That’s how this happened.
BREAKING: DOJ sues Louisiana over late-prison release dates.
"A prison system has several basic functions: booking new prisoners into the system, taking care of them when they are in custody, and releasing them when their sentence is complete. Louisiana falls short on the third function."
"A prison system has several basic functions: booking new prisoners into the system, taking care of them when they are in custody, and releasing them when their sentence is complete. Louisiana falls short on the third function."
![INTRODUCTION
1. "'[L]iberty from bodily restraint always has been recognized as the core of the
liberty protected by the Due Process Clause from arbitrary governmental action .... This interest
survives criminal conviction and incarceration. "'1
2. A prison system has several basic functions: booking new prisoners into the
system, taking care of them when they are in custody, and releasing them when their sentence is
complete. Louisiana falls short on the third function. The State incarcerates thousands ofpeople
each year after they have satisfied their sentences and are entitled to release under state law. State
officials know that systemic operational deficiencies in the Louisiana Department ofPublic Safety
and Corrections ("LDOC") have caused this overdetention. Indeed, while serving as Louisiana
Attorney General in 2018, Governor Jeff Landry complained in an op-ed that there is "a layer of
1 Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 316 (1982) (quoting Greenholtz v. Nebraska Penal Inmates, 442 U.S. 1, 18
(1979)).
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incompetence so deep that the Corrections Department doesn't know where a prisoner is on any
given day of the week or when he should actually be released from prison."2
3. Louisiana routinely detains people weeks and months past their release dates](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibcxc2rilhdgt7ilocbteszvv7xsj7gefnyuboencsjbho3egwncu@jpeg)
December 21, 2024 at 2:56 AM
So, years ago, a scrappy young civil rights attorney, William Most (@williammost.bsky.social), was at a party with a bunch of Orleans Public Defenders & overheard that their clients kept getting kidnapped by DOC. He sued the hell out of them again and again for years.
That’s how this happened.
That’s how this happened.
“We were extremely disturbed to learn in the course of the child sexual assault case that an NOPD representative did not know of anything that NOPD has done differently to prevent another officer predator like Officer Vicknair,” Most said in an interview.
NOPD's rape clearance rate is at a decade-plus low. What does this mean for the consent decree? • Louisiana Illuminator
The NOPD's declining clearance rate for rape cases is one indicator that the department’s sex crimes unit remains severely understaffed and underresourced.
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December 19, 2024 at 1:51 AM
“We were extremely disturbed to learn in the course of the child sexual assault case that an NOPD representative did not know of anything that NOPD has done differently to prevent another officer predator like Officer Vicknair,” Most said in an interview.