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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Licensing a troubled juvenile jail. A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection supported those claims, but the agency gave the jail a license anyway. by Nick Chrastil October 1, 2024.
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WEBOct 21, 2021 · The city only directly owns 555 cameras, which are plotted on the map below. The other 420 live video feeds come through a program called Safecam Platinum, which allows private residents and businesses to hook up their cameras to the city system. This is a map of 48 participating Safecam Platinum businesses.
Divergent rulings on how to treat old split-jury verdicts could …
WEBNov 11, 2021 · The Advocate series also showed how that legacy appeared to manifest in the modern day. Black defendants, they found, were still more likely to be convicted by a non-unanimous jury than white defendants, and Black jurors were more likely to cast dissenting votes in jury trials.
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Holy Cross School: The how and why of losing historic buildings
WEBOct 12, 2020 · The Holy Cross District, because of its history, is on the National Register of Historic Places. According to Abandoned Southeast, Holy Cross School was founded in1849, when the Archbishop of New Orleans invited five brothers from the Congregation of Holy Cross to New Orleans to assume responsibility for operating St. Mary’s Orphanage. In ...
Lighthouse network expands, as St. John Parish opens ... - The Lens
WEBNov 17, 2023 · As St. John, the nation’s most climate-vulnerable place, opens the state’s seventh Community Lighthouse, other struggling communities try to fight LNG export terminals and open community solar projects.
‘We're looking at a lot of new homeless people’: Service providers ...
WEBSep 2, 2020 · A recent survey by Unity of Greater New Orleans found the number of homeless people was more than four times its previous estimate a few months ago.