Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come

Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come

Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source image via Wikimedia Commons. The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies — reforms put in place prior to his tenure when the state was trying to shed its reputation as the nation’s incarceration capital. He also demanded harsher penalties for violent minors. “I’m done…