This week on Behind The Lens, a U.S. District judge ordered the Louisiana Department of Corrections to submit a plan to protect inmates laboring on the Farm line at Angola who face “immediate threats” from working in extreme heat without adequate protection. The prisoners had filed an emergency motion asking to halt the dangerous and sometimes deadly practice. The DOC appealed the decision.

And the nuns at The Sisters of the Holy Family are constructing solar panels on the order’s New Orleans East motherhouse, to create the city’s 12th solar-driven Community Lighthouse. The project aims to create a microgrid resilience hub for the neighborhood.

Our guests this week are criminal justice reporter Nick Chrastil, environmental reporter Delaney Dryfoos, and co-editor Katy Reckdahl.

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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...