Bernard Smith on New Orleans' notorious House of Detention and protections for Angola's Farm Line workers in summer heat.

Kimberly Thomas, who served a decade ago on the S&WB, was given nod by a council committee last week and was slated for Council approval on Thursday ...

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It helps you to be conscious when the security (the free man) is talking to you crazy, You want to pop him upside his head. Instead, you learn in critical thinking class to think, “Oh this clown. He ...

When Essence Communications rebranded its flagship event as the Essence Festival of Culture, it may have seemed like a harmless update. But in a city like New Orleans, where culture is lived—not ...

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson requires Angola prison officials to monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. When heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade, the ...

Some of us aren’t just shouting from the sidelines. Some of us were in the room,” writes Henderson-Uloho, who founded the SisterHearts Decarceration Program, and taught decarceration classes in the ...

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

The now-closed 10-story city jail at 2735 Perdido St. was known for its harsh conditions and troubling practices. Within its concrete walls, people shivered in the winter and sweat in the sweltering ...