Behind The Lens

Behind The Lens episode 220: ‘Mothers want their kids out of there’

This week on Behind The Lens, Jackson Parish’s is housing kids awaiting adjudication in a detention center unlicensed to do so and state A through...

Behind the Lens episode 219: ‘A community that depends on us’

This week on Behind The Lens, a historic drought at the root of ‘superfog’ causing a massive wreck on I-55 and small non-profit news outlets, like...

Behind The Lens episode 218: 'They need stability ... this does not bode well for that'

This week on Behind The Lens, a $9.5 million private security contract for Louisiana youth prisons raises eyebrows.

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Behind The Lens episode 217: ‘Wetlands may be severed from that historic protection’

A new judicial interpretation of the Clean Water Act leaves more than half of the country’s 118 million acres of wetlands unprotected, including the...

Behind The Lens episode 216: ‘It’s torturous’

This week on Behind The Lens, Calvin Cains died in police custody in June and his mother sought body camera footage from on-scene officers through a...