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Drugs, suicide, violence contribute to spike in Louisiana jail deaths, new report finds

Drew Hawkins

Prisons, jails, and youth detention centers across Louisiana are seeing an increase in ‘unnatural’ deaths caused by drug overdoses, suicide, and violence.
Friday, August 17th : Andrea Armstrong, Mike Wolf, Bill Grimley, Phillip Manuel

Jim Engster

Loyola University Law Professor Andrea Armstrong looks at 25 deaths in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in a five year period between 2012 and 2016.…
Daniel Mintz on the food studies program at Loyola

Jim Engster

Daniel Mintz talks with us about the new food studies program at Loyola University. The university has established a new bachelor's degree program in food…