Candis Vanta was about 4 months pregnant and incarcerated at a local jail for a drug possession charge when she began to experience bleeding and spotting. She was never granted access to an OBGYN or a hospital. Her story is not unique in Louisiana.

RT @aegallo: Great reporting from @jadelson and @blevimyers about what was supposed to happen in the lead up to new year’s Eve in New Orlea….

RT @keribla: How many incarcerated firefighters are fighting the LA wildfires? What type of work are they doing? And how do they feel about….

RT @RVargasWrites: 🧵Bollards, wedge barriers and archer barriers -- New Orleans bought them all in 2017 as part of a $40m public safety pac….

RT @WAdrewhawkins: I talked to a pedicab driver who had just dropped off a fare at canal and bourbon right as the truck turned. A harrowing….

RT @aegallo: New: here's our deep dive into the life of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who attacked Bourbon Street on New Year's. His brother doesn't….

RT @rjamesfinn: An Alabama mom hit by the Bourbon Street attacker's truck then shot in the attack, who still has a bullet lodged in her foo….

RT @JSODonoghue: I'm not working today but many of my talented Louisiana colleagues are. Please follow @GregLaRose, @samkarlin, @emily_wo….

RT @GordonRussell1: Good backgrounder on the suspect in New Orleans terrorism attack here from @samkarlin and @joey_cranney: .

RT @emily_woodruff_: A father of two from Baton Rouge. A former football player for Princeton from Lafayette. A teen from Mississippi ringi….

RT @million_book: "What does it mean to put possibility within someone’s reach?". Hear from Freedom Reads Founder & CEO @dwaynebetts & lear….

New: I revisit @million_book and its expansion in Louisiana prisons, bringing new worlds to the incarcerated by opening cellblock libraries. "I said I would put millions of books in prison, because we put millions of people in prison," said @dwaynebetts.

RT @micarosenberg: Another important and deeply reported installment in ⁦the ⁦@propublica⁩ series on how immigration is being experienced i….

RT @nchrastil: Prison Enterprises, the for-profit arm of the Louisiana Department of Corrections that produces and sells a whole range of p….

RT @rjamesfinn: Breaking: Despite objections from @mayorcantrell, Louisiana State Police closed a large homeless encampment this morning be….

RT @elizabethweill: Thousands of people are incarcerated in counties where all or part of the county is under a mandatory evacuation order.….

RT @nchrastil: Last week, many Louisiana officials were upset a detention center violated a state law to ID a juvenile escapee. How about….

RT @espn: Reporter Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Mississippi welfare fraud involving former governor Phil Bryant and Brett F….

RT @nchrastil: New: The Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice has approved the use of mace and pepper spray on kids in local juvenile detent….

RT @theappeal: An Appeal survey of state prison systems reveals that prisoners in many of the hottest states live in units without air-cond….

RT @meg_friedmann: Jimmy Le Blanc, who has headed Louisiana's prison system for 16 years, is stepping down. He submitted his resignation le….