Behind The Lens Episode 185: ‘intended to inflict mental torture’

Nick Chrastil on "inhumane" conditions and mental health care services at David Wade Correctional Center. And Terry Jones joins us from Floodlight News to talk about abandoned well heads.

This week on Behind The Lens, Reporter Nick Chrastil provides an update on a months-awaited ruling on mental health at the David Wade Correctional Center in Homer, Louisiana. Prisoners there sued the state in an attempt to improve conditions and mental health care at the facility. A federal judge called the conditions “inhumane” and found they rose to the level of a constitutional violation.

Reporter Terry Jones joins us from Floodlight News, a to talk about the hundreds of thousands of abandoned well heads throughout the country, including in Louisiana, and what one non-profit is doing to try to seal them off. 

Our guests this week are Lens reporter Nick Chrastil, Floodlight News reporter Terry Jones and Lens editor Marta Jewson. 

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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.