‘Servitude’ | The Lens
… Slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited besides within the latter case as punishment for a criminal offense.—Louisiana Structure Article 1, § 3 EVERY MORNING AT 5 O’CLOCK SHARP, Slim is roused from sleep by the overhead fluorescents {that a}…
Kaleidoscope Reprise | The Lens
Within the Previous Administration Segregation—I as soon as believed there was NO WAYI might see the millennium come and go fromcontained in the penitentiary. That may be heresy,against the law towards humanity. It was.The date got here and went, left…
Ready. | The Lens
The outdated man hated mornings probably the most. Hated waking, the itchy wool blanket, the sounds of others; hated climbing down from atop the double rack, the ache of his naked toes on the metallic rungs; hated sitting on his…
‘Resentment shouldn’t be inevitable’ | The Lens
Strickland’s brief story, “Ready,” received the PEN Jail Writing Award for Fiction, and can be revealed within the forthcoming 2024 version of the PEN Jail Writing Awards Anthology. It’s additionally revealed right here by The Lens. What’s your writing course…
Behind The Lens episode 261: ‘A second within the 12 months’
This week on Behind The Lens, 2025 is quick approaching and as we flip the final web page on the calendar of 2024, we are going to have a look again on the tales that our reporters at The Lens…
Behind The Lens episode 260: ‘Robust Transitions’
This week on Behind The Lens, selections are in about colleges after state check outcomes had been launched and a few households and academics are actually scrambling after the district introduced two excessive colleges would shut. One will shut subsequent…
Behind The Lens episode 259: Opinion: ‘The schooling scenario’
This week on Behind The Lens, the academic panorama in New Orleans has some advocates touting the all-charter system as a mannequin for the nation. However the chief of an area non-profit Black Training for New Orleans, or BE NOLA,…
Behind The Lens episode 258: ‘Floodplains’
This week on Behind The Lens, because it first opened its doorways final yr, the Jackson Parish jail has flouted state-licensing legal guidelines for juvenile detention services. It’s been constantly accused of abusing and neglecting youngsters in its custody, however…
Behind The Lens episode 257: ‘Creating new reefs’
This week on Behind The Lens, off the coast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, “Cajun Coral” – a extremely customizable sort of 3D-printed concrete – is creating new reefs, slowly attracting sea life. And faculties are within the information this week…
We’re Not Finished But | The Lens
The conferences began within the Seventies, as many fortuitous issues do on this city, over steaming bowls of pink beans and rice. Devoted civil rights activists acknowledged that the promise of a sizzling meal—served in Dooky Chase’s upstairs eating room—may…