These escapes were more than an act, they were a symptom. They signal the breaking point in a system long frayed by injustice ...

For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the ...

The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

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On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that groups representing residents of majority-Black districts in St. James Parish may proceed with their lawsuit seeking a moratorium on the ...

New Orleans Mayor Mayor Latoya Cantrell and her Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montaño. In an interview, Montaño told The Lens that the new office to be headed by Bowen represented “a major ...

In late 2015, the city of New Orleans and FEMA resolved years of haggling over how much federal relief the city should get to rebuild the sewage systems, water systems and roads damaged following ...

“Our community should still be proud of the long fight,” said longtime Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition leader Sade Dumas, as she stood outside the Phase III construction site last month.