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...