Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, lawyers contend.
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Dark Resurrection
Prisoners come to terms with the return of capital punishment in Louisiana.
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State, school district ask judge to end federal scrutiny of New Orleans special education
State and district school officials argue that they’ve complied with a 2015 federal civil-rights judgment. But lawyers representing students who still aren’t getting adequate special ed services say that school officials may be complying with the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it.
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City Council poised to send $10 million to schools, Cantrell could veto
Council members say they feel beholden to the November agreement that they’d forged with the school board. And though the mayor backed out of the proposal, citing a tight city budget, council members see no worrisome shortfalls ahead, they say.
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It’s not a teacher raise, voices against Amendment 2 emphasize
As Louisiana restarts executions, stories about the state’s death penalty — from condemned men, victims, families, and those who work in the death chamber.
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Our kids deserve better: vote NO on 3
“Accountability is about helping someone take responsibility and change,” Malcolm Jenkins writes “It’s about making sure they never go back down that same road again. And for kids, that only works when you treat them like kids.”
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Behind the Lens episode 269: ‘They are not forgotten’
This week, two St. James Parish residents who recently wrote a piece for the Lens on their families’ deep roots in the region and how local histories like their own are threatened by the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Barbara Washington and Gail LeBoeuf are co-founders and co-directors of Inclusive Louisiana, a local organization dedicated […]
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Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Part II: ‘The best spot on Fat Tuesday’
Mizani Ball on family and friends settling in to their traditional parade watching spots on the route. Katy Reckdahl on a Black Masking Indian continuing his father’s tradition.
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Big boots to fill
Anthony Hingle Jr. didn’t touch beads or feathers for 32 years. Now he’s back in town, continuing the work of his father, Flagboy Meathead, a legend among Black Masking Indians.
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Behind The Lens episode 268: ‘Cruel and unusual’
Special guest Ned Randolph on Entergy’s proposal to build a massive AI data center in an impoverished section of north Louisiana that Meta is eyeing. Nick Chrastil on the state’s push to use nitrogen hypoxia for executions.