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Louisiana’s business and industry community says it’s supporting the efforts to reform the state’s criminal justice system. “If we can get more people…
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How did Louisiana end up with the world’s highest incarceration rate? Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre says it grew out of the late 1980’s national…
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“It wasn’t easy, having to come back in society, with having to adjust myself to the real world after spending 35 years in prison.”Reginald is in his 60s,…
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What does the “world’s highest incarceration rate” really mean?“It feels oftentimes that as DAs and judges we are flipping hamburgers because the volume…
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“Everybody needs somebody to fight for them, and just because I’m poor doesn’t mean I need to be treated any different,” says Joseph Allen.He one of the…
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Governor John Bel Edwards, in Washington Thursday to lobby the lame duck Congress for more flood aid for the state, didn’t equivocate while participating…
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The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry convened a summit Thursday to start tackling one of the state’s less desirable statistics.“We…
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“I guess we all know by now that Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the nation.”And that’s what prompted a new performance audit by the…
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Louisiana’s incarceration rate is the highest in the world, and costs the state $600-million a year. So how do we change that?“Nobody’s trying to get…
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Usually “We’re Number One” is something to brag about, but in this case, it’s not a stellar statistic.“The United States leads the world in the number of…