For families of people held in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, money placed into a commissary account can help cover basic comforts and necessities that are…
For someone held inside a jail, a missed dose is not a minor administrative hiccup. It can trigger withdrawal, seizures, psychosis, uncontrolled pain,…
A death in a parish jail is recorded as an individual tragedy, but a series of deaths can point to institutional conditions. A carefully maintained database of…
Bail is often presented as a neutral step between arrest and trial. In practice, it can determine whether a person returns home, keeps a job, cares for…
A parish jail is often asked to perform several incompatible functions at once. It holds people awaiting trial, manages acute behavioural crises, maintains…
A criminal record can affect employment, housing, professional licensing, family life and immigration matters long after a sentence has ended. In Louisiana,…
A child’s experience at school can influence far more than grades and qualifications. Repeated suspension, exclusion, police contact or referral to youth court…
When someone is frightened, intoxicated, homeless, suicidal or behaving unpredictably in public, the usual response is often built around police attendance, an…
When a government contracts a private company to run part of a jail, the facility may look commercial, but the money behind it remains public. Taxpayers fund…