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Disciplinary incidents dropped sharply within the Orleans Justice Center with the advent of electronic tablets, which stay on for 17 hours a day, bringing those in the jail new options -- movies, ...
The shrimp stopped coming up the Calcasieu River after Venture Global built its Liquified Natural Gas terminal. The river’s ...
While prison officials and Farm Line workers disagree about whether the incarcerated workers have all the shade and water ...
The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor selects the levee board members or if a panel picks candidates – or even if ...
From the site of the nation's largest slave revolt, the Banner sisters continue a legacy of environmental and cultural resistance.
This week on Behind The Lens, a court order last year mandated some protections for incarcerated men at Angola who work the Farm Line for little or no compensation in the brutal summer heat. In ...
The shrimp stopped coming up the Calcasieu River after Venture Global built its Liquified Natural Gas terminal. The river’s ongoing pollution, on top of decades of hazardous waste dumping, earned the ...
With budget losses to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, mitigation grant programs to address riverine flooding could be impacted substantially. According to ...