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

Posted November 4, 202200:25:37

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, 202200:33:07

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, 202200:31:00

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...

Behind The Lens episode 182: ‘police aren’t being utilized correctly’

Posted October 14, 202200:27:36

Joshua Rosenberg explains the Army Corps of Engineers' concerns about the potential cumulative environmental and public health impacts a grain elevator...

Behind The Lens episode 181: ‘This is paradise’

Posted October 7, 202200:42:27

A carbon sequestration project has residents worried about the future of Lake Maurepas. A mental health crisis intervention program in New Orleans....