Jailhouse Lawyer Calvin Duncan officially qualified to run for clerk of Criminal District Court in Orleans Parish.

Bernard Smith on New Orleans' notorious House of Detention and protections for Angola's Farm Line workers in summer heat.

Kimberly Thomas, who served a decade ago on the S&WB, was given nod by a council committee last week and was slated for Council approval on Thursday ...

It helps you to be conscious when the security (the free man) is talking to you crazy, You want to pop him upside his head. Instead, you learn in critical thinking class to think, “Oh this clown. He ...

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Some of us aren’t just shouting from the sidelines. Some of us were in the room,” writes Henderson-Uloho, who founded the SisterHearts Decarceration Program, and taught decarceration classes in the ...

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana reclassifies natural gas as “green energy” under a controversial new law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry. We also examine a major expansion of ammonia plants in ...

A bill on its way to the Governor’s desk—with connections to gas industry allies—could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisiana’s future.

The air in Ascension Parish is already saturated with the pungent odor of ammonia, a scent reminiscent of strong cleaning products or even cat urine. The odor emanates from the world’s largest ammonia ...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...