Behind The Lens episode 142: ‘Due to storm activity in your area’

The power situation in New Orleans and beyond. Stories of evacuees. How jails, and people inside, have done after the storm. And when schools are coming back.

This week on Behind the Lens, power is restored to most of New Orleans, but for the state’s hardest-hit areas, it could be weeks.

The stories of people who left New Orleans last week as part of a city-assisted post-storm evacuation program.

In criminal justice news, how jails, and the people inside them, fared during and after the storm.

And school kids have another rough start to the year with more than one-third of the state’s students out due to Ida.

Our guests this week are Michael Isaac Stein, Nick Chrastil, Marta Jewson, and Charles Maldonado.

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Carolyne Heldman

Carolyne Heldman Rovira has been in media for 35 years, and is currently the podcast host and producer for Behind The Lens. Heldman served as executive director at Aspen Public Radio, an NPR affiliate, where she launched four weekly news, public affairs, and cultural affairs programs. She has been a guest lecturer at Tulane University, is a frequent guest and moderator for the Aspen Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute, and the American Enterprise Institute.