After serving 44 years of a life sentence at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Solomon Birdsong is asking for clemency. His case raises a difficult question about justice, redemption, and ...

Because of decades of high-stress and deficient healthcare, a 59-year-old in prison has a ‘geriatric morbidity’ equal to a 75 ...

As more gas moves hundreds of miles by pipeline to an increased number of LNG export terminals licensed by the Trump ...

Despite the stringent abortion ban, AG Liz Murrill said almost 1,000 abortions per month are administered in Louisiana ...

The additional six-month deployment will involve approximately 120 National Guard members—down from the 350 who were working during Carnival.

For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens seeks to focus on the inherent inequality that has created a multi-tiered ...