New Orleans’ incarceration system has seen rapid changes under Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration in recent years. Landry declared a state of emergency to address a “lack of capacity to house violent...

Cedar Annenkovna reaches through the 12-inch slot on the cell door. The steel bars reach well above her head and anchor into a cement block in the ground below.   Standing on the front lawn of...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed 11 bills into law on March 5 and eight additional bills on March 6 following the Louisiana Special Legislative Session on Crime.   “Our criminal justice system...

Louisiana Amendment 7, which appeared on voter ballots in November, has caused some confusion among voters. While involuntary servitude is generally unlawful in the United States, there is one exception....

  Constitutional Amendments typically assure certain rights to Americans. The 26th Amendment, for example, mandates that all citizens over 18 years of age have the right to vote. The 15th Amendment...

Tulane football player Tyler Judson has been dismissed from the Green Wave football team following an arrest on battery charges. Judson attacked a young woman on Sunday morning in East Baton Rouge Parish,...

Nketiah Berko is a writer who is definitely human and not at all an alien. In the course of human events, the conscience of a nation is occasionally awakened. From the storming of the Bastille to...

Emma King is a member of Newcomb Prison Project and recently completed an internship with the Promise of Justice Initiative/Capital Appeals Project. Inhumane prison conditions in Louisiana reflect...