This week on Behind The Lens, in the ongoing legal battle over conditions on the Farm Line at Angola, a district judge has just extended protections through mid-August for the incarcerated men working in the extreme heat of the Louisiana summer. 

And the New Orleans House of Detention, or H.O.D. is slated for demolition. Vacant since 2012 the structure was deemed architecturally significant and eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. It has such a notorious legacy in the city’s criminal-justice system that its history should be carefully documented before it’s demolished according to criminal-justice advocates.

And late last year, Fannie C. Williams Charter School sent a student home and barred her from returning to class until the child was cleared by a doctor — a flagrant violation of federal special education law.

Our guests this week are Lens reporters Bernard Smith and Marta Jewson. 

Theme music by Podington Bear. Additional music Fragile Do Not Drop by Podington Bear soundofpicture.com. 

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