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Behind The Lens Episode 187: ‘It looked like JPSO was digging up dirt on this teenager’

Posted November 18, 2022 • 00:23:33

Reporter Nick Chrastil looks into the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office expansive requests for search warrants of a 16-year-old who died in custody....

Behind The Lens Episode 186: ‘There was a real power struggle at the time’

Posted November 11, 2022 • 00:24:27

Environmental reporter Joshua Rosenberg recaps a visit to Lake Charles where shrimpers and activists launched a flotilla outside an LNG conference....

Behind The Lens Episode 185: ‘intended to inflict mental torture’

Posted November 4, 2022 • 00:25:37

Nick Chrastil on "inhumane" conditions and mental health care services at David Wade Correctional Center. And Terry Jones joins us from Floodlight News...

Behind The Lens Episode 184: ‘The price per square-foot is a little more than half what residents expected’

Posted October 28, 2022 • 00:33:07

This week on Behind The Lens, the Louisiana Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials to the nearly 1,500 prisoners who were convicted by split...

Behind The Lens episode 183: ‘a self-tithing business’

Posted October 21, 2022 • 00:31:00

Marta Jewson and Karen Gadbois on the guilty plea of a local Reverend and charter school board chair. Michael Isaac Stein on the city's work to increase...