Nick Chrastil
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#TheLensNola🔍 Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, lawyers contend. ✍️: @NChrastil Read the full story here ⬇️ https://t.co/DTpqZVTwVL
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@JSODonoghue @LAGovJeffLandry Maybe I should learn how to hunt?!!
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The doctor acting as an expert witness for Louisiana as they seek to carry out the state's first ever execution by nitrogen hypoxia has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last nine years by states defending their execution protocols — https://t.co/jZR2yz5nNQ
thelensnola.org
Dr. Joseph Antognini travels across the nation, being paid over $500 an hour by government officials who rely on him to vouch for their execution protocols. [...]Read More... from The doctor defend...
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When Jessie Hoffman, who was scheduled to be executed at Angola next week by nitrogen gas, filed a grievance with the prison challenging the method they told him they might issue a response *after* his execution date.
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Looks like the Landry admin has decided that providing $40 a month to children for lunch over the summer is not, in fact, an impediment to "self-sufficiency"
Looks like no fight planned this year over whether to continue the summer food stamp program in Louisiana (SUN Bucks). In his budget proposal, the governor included the state money needed to continue the program and draw down $77M in federal funding next summer. #lalege
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A legislatively created commission has issued its proposal for spending $100M set aside to build or repair juvenile detention centers, adult jails and prisons & other criminal justice infrastructure. List goes to Joint Legislative Committee on Budget for final decision. #lalege
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#TheLensNola🔍 Emails reveal state officials considered a barge shelter in the Industrial Canal—while prominent local developers knew before some city officials. ✍: @NChrastil Read more at the 🔗 below! https://t.co/RWoi53mAIV
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New: Emails show state leaders considered using a barge moored in the Industrial Canal as a homeless shelter ahead of the Super Bowl, and that several prominent local businessmen were involved in discussions long before city officials: https://t.co/pH3o80nHNO
thelensnola.org
Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent local developers knew about the shelter long before some city officials....
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.@LAGovJeffLandry has announced that the LA DOC has updated the death penalty protocols. Here is the brief update. The Governor and AG have reiterated their support for carrying out executions. #lalege #lagov
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.@LAGovJeffLandry had cabinet secretaries/legislators sign "blank NDAs" that apparently prevented @SpkrDeVillier from disclosing the intent of tax legislation with other lawmakers before asking them to vote on the bill. #lalege
https://t.co/DTbJJrjjNO
theadvocate.com
To bring Meta to Louisiana, officials rewrote laws and pushed through big tax breaks in record time. The inside story, from the people who made it happen.
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Towns across Louisiana clamor to build new juvenile detention centers, requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding from a new criminal justice commission created by lawmakers (from @nchrastil) https://t.co/la9gtYHdME
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thelensnola.org
Local governments request more than $500 million to build regional and local juvenile-detention facilities — and to repair and construct some adult jails. [...]Read More... from Towns across Louisi...
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Over $500 million is being requested to add over 2,000 jail and detention beds. There are a lot of specifics in those applications our story doesn't dig into, but will be important to the local communities where the projects are proposed.
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For other reporters or anyone else interested, here is a link to all the applications requesting state funding to build and renovate jails and juvenile detention centers in Louisiana. https://t.co/fadzU8kZ4H
#TheLensNola🔍 Local governments in Louisiana are seeking over $500 million in state funding to expand, renovate, and build new jails and juvenile detention facilities. ✍: @NChrastil For more details, click the 🔗 below. https://t.co/Odsojh2Nj6
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#TheLensNola🔍 Local governments in Louisiana are seeking over $500 million in state funding to expand, renovate, and build new jails and juvenile detention facilities. ✍: @NChrastil For more details, click the 🔗 below. https://t.co/Odsojh2Nj6
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New: Louisiana has paid a jail in Jackson Parish nearly $2 million over the last year to house kids in state custody, despite repeated allegations of neglect and abuse. Now, they're ending the contract. https://t.co/9I3EzcineK
thelensnola.org
Invoices show that Jackson charged OJJ nearly $2 million dollars over the past year to house juveniles in the jail, despite grave allegations of abuse and mistreatment. [...]Read More... from...
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Louisiana lawmakers are considering two bills to partially restore privileges for legislators who are attorneys after a previous, similar law was declared unconstitutional last month. @JSODonoghue reports https://t.co/Bme2L72vzR
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During their special session on taxes, Louisiana lawmakers are also considering a constitutional amendment that could eventually make it easier to send more minors (teenagers who are 14, 15, 16 years old) to adult prison. #lalege
lailluminator.com
In a special lawmaking session focused on tax policy, Louisiana lawmakers are also quietly moving legislation that could lead to more underage youth being sent to adult prisons.
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Federal monitor overseeing NOPD consent decree slammed by colleague at public hearing
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The lawsuit is an unprecedented challenge that could erase critical protections for people with disabilities, including in public schools. A favorable ruling for them could have a cascading effect on all similarly enforced civil rights protections. Read: https://t.co/3zulqAECJK
thelensnola.org
Because of objections to a federal rule protecting gender dysphoria, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate Section 504, the disability law best...
The Attorney General's office in five of the states that signed on to have basic special education law ruled unconstitutional in its entirety are on the ballot November 5th.
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