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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.

“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.

“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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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.

“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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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.

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.

“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.