This week on Behind The Lens, within the ongoing authorized battle over situations on the Farm Line at Angola, a district choose has simply prolonged protections by means of mid-August for the incarcerated males working within the excessive warmth of the Louisiana summer time.
And the New Orleans Home of Detention, or H.O.D. is slated for demolition. Vacant since 2012 the construction was deemed architecturally important and eligible for the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. It has such a infamous legacy within the metropolis’s criminal-justice system that its historical past must be rigorously documented earlier than it’s demolished based on criminal-justice advocates.
And late final yr, Fannie C. Williams Constitution Faculty despatched a pupil dwelling and barred her from returning to class till the kid was cleared by a health care provider — a flagrant violation of federal particular schooling legislation.
Our company this week are Lens reporters Bernard Smith and Marta Jewson.
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