AltWeeklies Wire
Anti-Crime Groups Reflect New Orleans' Diversitynew
During the past year, citizen outrage, often voiced through these post-Katrina groups, has helped trigger huge changes in the criminal justice system while bolstering community involvement.
Gambit |
Ariane Wiltse |
02-06-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Mentally Ill Inmates Often Become Rape Victimsnew
Jailers need help in protecting a growing population of mentally ill prisoners from assault, including rape, by other inmates, Louisiana officials told a federal panel in New Orleans recently.
Gambit |
Allen Johnson Jr |
12-19-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Human Trafficking, the New Slaverynew
It flies below the radar of most people's consciousness, but human trafficking happens -- even in New Orleans.
Gambit |
Sarah Andert |
12-19-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
After Eddie Jordan, What's Next for New Orleans?new
Getting rid of the District Attorney was not easy, but several even tougher tasks confront the criminal justice system and those who seek to lead it.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos and Allen Johnson Jr |
11-07-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
'Traffic' Fatalitynew
How could someone arrested for missing a court date on a traffic violation wind up murdered in the Parish Prison in New Orleans? That's not the only question surrounding the death of Oscar Fuselier.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
09-18-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Focusing on the 'End Game'new
New Orleans Crime Coalition works within the system to improve it and crime.
Gambit |
Allen Johnson Jr. |
09-05-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Star Witnessesnew
With testimony expected from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and a gaggle of TV weathermen, the state attorney general's high-profile case against the owners of a nursing home where 35 elderly residents died during Hurricane Katrina is getting glitzier by the day.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
08-21-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Lock and Loadnew
Fear of crime is driving more and more New Orleanians to buy handguns -- and get permits to carry them on the street.
Gambit |
Sam Winston |
03-20-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
An Uncanny Resemblancenew
New Orleans' criminal justice system in the Gilded Age offers a window on today's fractured efforts to cap crime.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
03-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Can a Broken Criminal Justice System Be Fixed?new
Reforming New Orleans' system is not going to be easy, but everyone agrees the goal is worth whatever pain the fight for change brings.
Gambit |
Ariane Wiltse |
02-28-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
No Love Lostnew
Testimony in several high-stakes New Orleans Police Department disciplinary hearings resumes this week at City Hall.
Gambit |
Allen Johnson Jr. |
02-14-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Death of Innocencenew
The cycle of violence in New Orleans is creating a lost generation -- one family has felt it twice as much as others.
Gambit |
Sam Winston |
12-13-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
