This week on Behind The Lens, greater than 170 million folks have been underneath warmth alerts throughout the central United States, the Midwest, the Southeast and the East Coast, with some areas feeling temperatures as excessive as 115 levels Fahrenheit.

Within the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the biggest most safety jail in america, incarcerated males are crammed into overcrowded areas with no air con, damaged followers, and insufficient sanitation, and are asking the state for aid.

And one of many summer time’s largest festivals in New Orleans, Essence Fest, has seen dramatic development over time. However with that development comes confusion to some about who it serves, what it represents, and the way it operates. In keeping with one author, the deeper subject isn’t logistics — it’s ideology.

Our company this week are Lens prison justice reporter Bernard Smith and Lens photographer and columnist Gus Bennett.

Theme music by Podington Bear. Further music Mahalia Jackson, Preserve Your Hand on the Plow.

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