This week on Behind The Lens, the David Wade Correctional Center has been put under federal oversight to bring the prison up to constitutional standards after a judge found that corrective measures had not been implemented in the two years since the facility had been the target of a class action lawsuit brought against it by incarcerated individuals. 

And a judge has certified Kennedy High School 2019 and 2020 seniors for a class action lawsuit, five years after the graduation scandal that rocked the city.

And the water treatment facility that provides much of New Orleans with drinking water received a grade of D but officials with the state health department says that doesn’t mean it is unsafe to drink.

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

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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...