At their first 2019 member meeting, VOTE focused their message on educating membership about the process of creating reform in the criminal justice system.
After 37 years in Angola, Eric Prudholm is going home a free man. Prudholm was wrongfully convicted of aggravated rape and robbery.
Cyntoia Brown, child sex trafficking victim sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man when she was 16 years old has been granted clemency.
New Orleans ended 2018 with only 145 murders, the lowest in almost half a century.
Criminal justice reform is of major interest to more than those with families in targeted neighborhoods and those with disadvantaged backgrounds.
Little did Fox and Rob Richardson know that six months after their marriage, they would spend the next 21 years fighting a 60-year sentence in Angola.
Some of the people who organize church "mission" trips to impoverished countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador for the purpose of supplying aid to people who are desperately in need are the same people screaming, "BUILD THAT WALL!"
On the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, Mayor Latoya Cantrell issued a statement saying that the "stigma and shame" of sex work "put lives at risk."
According to CNN, dozens of educational and other institutions across the U.S. received bomb threats Thursday afternoon, triggering multiple evacuations. According to NOPD, the emailed bomb threats were reported in: the 600 block of Poydras St., the 6200 block of South Claiborne Ave., the 7800 block of Walmsley Ave., and the 9600 block of Hayne […]
Will Snowden, director of the New Orleans office for Vera Institute of Justice and former New Orleans public defender speaks on the historic passing of Amendment #2 and also addresses implications of its practice moving forward.
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