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Scattershot statutes

by Nick ChrastilMarch 2, 2025March 3, 2025

Is it illegal to carry a concealed gun while watching a parade in Louisiana? Depends who you ask.

Vote to reject the state’s costly push to fill Louisiana jails and prisons

by Bruce ReillyFebruary 18, 2025February 18, 2025

Ensuring we all feel safe and are stably employed

by Arthur Hunter Jr.January 15, 2025January 16, 2025

‘A make-believe person in a make-believe world’

by John Corley, as interviewed by Nick Chrastil, The LensJanuary 2, 2025December 30, 2024

Kaleidoscope Reprise

by John CorleyJanuary 2, 2025December 30, 2024

‘Servitude’

by John CorleyJanuary 2, 2025December 30, 2024

‘Resentment is not inevitable’

by Lawson Strickland, winner of the PEN Prison Writing Award for Fiction, as interviewed by Nick Chrastil, The LensDecember 26, 2024December 26, 2024

Waiting.

by Lawson StricklandDecember 26, 2024December 27, 2024

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Towns across Louisiana clamor to build new juvenile detention centers

by Nick ChrastilDecember 16, 2024January 10, 2025

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Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice to end contract with troubled Jackson Parish jail

by Nick ChrastilNovember 25, 2024November 27, 2024