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Behind The Lens episode 220: ‘Mothers want their kids out of there’

This week on Behind The Lens, Jackson Parish’s is housing kids awaiting adjudication in a detention center unlicensed to do so and state A through F letter grades are due out soon.
by Carolyne Heldman

This week on Behind The Lens, Jackson Parish is housing kids awaiting adjudication in a detention center unlicensed to do so while collecting roughly $200 a day per kid from surrounding parishes, a judge lifts a two-day halt on Phase III jail building construction and state A through F letter grades for schools are due out soon.

Our guests this week are Lens reporters Nick Chrastil and Marta Jewson. 

Theme music by Podington Bear. Additional music The Dirty by Podington Bear soundofpicture.com. 

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Carolyne Heldman

Carolyne Heldman has been in media for 35 years, most recently as Executive Director at an NPR member station in Colorado where she was responsible for new multi-platform content initiatives, strategic planning, research, branding, and non-traditional revenue generation. During her tenure she also created and launched four weekly news, public affairs and cultural affairs programs and monthly live Town Hall broadcasts. Heldman moved to New Orleans last summer with her husband and canine companion and they live happily in The Marigny.

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