Behind The Lens episode 245: ‘Adults failed them’
This week on Behind The Lens, the David Wade Correctional Heart has been put beneath federal oversight to deliver the jail as much as constitutional requirements after a choose discovered that corrective measures had not been applied within the two…
Behind The Lens “Sunshine Week” episode 232: ‘It is so highly effective to see’
This week on Behind The Lens. The Louisiana Public Information Act, also referred to as Louisiana’s Sunshine Legislation, was enacted by the state’s legislature in 1952, assuring transparency and disclosure in authorities and enterprise. At The Lens, we’re celebrating Sunshine…
Behind The Lens episode 233: ‘A Black hamlet’
This week on Behind The Lens, the planning fee of St. John the Baptist Parish voted to permit heavy industrial makes use of on a disputed plot on the parish’s rural West Financial institution after years of contentious debate. And…
Behind The Lens episode 244: ‘Increasingly more extremes’
This week on Behind The Lens, 15,000 Louisianans have misplaced meals stamps resulting from reinstated federal work necessities. 1000’s extra will seemingly lose advantages beginning this fall, resulting from a brand new Louisiana regulation that bars state officers from doing…
Behind The Lens episode 243: ‘The photo voltaic Motherhouse’
This week on Behind The Lens, a U.S. District decide ordered the Louisiana Division of Corrections to submit a plan to guard inmates laboring on the Farm line at Angola who face “instant threats” from working in excessive warmth with…
Behind The Lens episode 242: ‘Excessive warmth and soiled water’
This week on Behind The Lens, the variety of inmates held at The Orleans Justice Heart has surpassed the town’s jail inhabitants cap, sparking questions on the way to enhance releases whereas decreasing bookings — and what the rising jail…
Behind The Lens episode 234: ‘Rabble-rousing on the Massive Inexperienced’
This week on Behind The Lens, in St. John Parish, a choose denied a request for a short lived injunction, permitting a Council vote to proceed on rezoning that will pave the way in which for Greenfield Louisiana to assemble…
Behind The Lens episode 241: ‘Radical Black pleasure’
This week on Behind The Lens, in a metropolis that’s synonymous with music, that’s be the driving power behind a number of native Juneteenth commemorations. Reporter Mizani Ball talks by way of her story on the historic and ongoing wrestle…
Behind The Lens episode 240: ‘A permanent insult’
This week on Behind The Lens, the New Orleans Metropolis Council Road Naming Fee issued a report two years in the past recommending that 37 streets be renamed in order to take away the names of former slaveholders. Seven streets,…
Behind The Lens episode 239: ‘It is unconscionable’
This week on Behind The Lens, one 12 months after Calvin Cains III was shot and killed by Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies, his mom and father are nonetheless asking for the physique cam footage from the incident, and they’ve filed…