By Richard A. Webster for ProPublica, and Bobbi-Jeanne Misick for Verite News One by one, the prisoners -- all immigrants -- appeared briefly over video before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board. The August hearings were unusual in a state that, under Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, has made it increasingly difficult for most prisoners to get early release.
Louisiana made it nearly impossible to get parole. Now it's releasing prisoners to deport them.
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