Lens reporter Nicholas Chrastil and Al Jazeera Fault Lines producer Jeremy Young talk about the case of Brandon Jackson and the ongoing impacts of the state's former split jury law.
James Singleton Charter School, which has faced repeated citations for academic and financial management problems, is one of the schools on the list.
The district hired a contractor to complete environmental inspections of the most severely damaged buildings before students returned.
The company’s report indicates that after a few years of improvements, the city’s electric reliability may be slipping once again.
After agreeing to allow the production crew into the jail, Sheriff’s Office officials became concerned about how it would be portrayed.
The agreement will place significant curbs on prosecutors’ ability to have witnesses, victims arrested.
Entergy planned to sell its transmission assets a decade ago, a commitment that helped put a federal antitrust investigation to rest. It never happened.
Despite the recent encouraging data from the district, the 2021-2022 case count among staff and students is already higher than all of last school year’s, likely due in large part to the highly infectious delta variant.
The city's trash contractors need to be held accountable in every way possible.
Brandon Jackson is one of more than 1,500 people still incarcerated in Louisiana on non-unanimous verdicts, though the United States Supreme Court ruled split verdicts unconstitutional last year. Will he get a chance at freedom?
