One in a Million
From prison to the classroom: a former Panther’s tale of trauma and redemption
From prison to the classroom: a former Panther’s tale of trauma and redemption
Rates of PTSD soar among Central City children, yet state budget cuts prevent access to mental healthcare
How exposure to violence can be toxic to the brain and body
A football coach haunted by the deaths of 28 former players fights to save the next generation
'He was showing the same symptoms as somebody that was in the middle of a war'
All of the 50 men in this classroom have broken the law. Some have killed a person and likely will never leave Louisiana's state penitentiary in Angola.
The Richardson children tell their father about their lives 15 minutes at a time.
Sitting at a short blue table in a kid-sized yellow chair, 8-year-old Jonathan Guillory Jr. colors Care Bears drawings, his head tilted in concentration. Across the table, his father, Jonathan
They have done no wrong, committed no crimes, yet thousands of children in Louisiana are being punished for their parents' mistakes.
Eight years later, as the city approaches the 10th anniversary of the storm, the massive brick buildings that made up the old housing developments are all but gone, replaced with the multicolored pastel houses and fourplexes of Marrero Commons, Columbia Parc, Faubourg Lafitte and Harmony Oaks, among others.
When asked what she did for a living, after making sure she wasn't talking to a "cop," the dancing girl said for $50 she would do "everything."
Once a vibrant thoroughfare that slowly fell into economic despair, Tulane Avenue could be on the cusp of a renaissance fueled by the construction of the $2 billion medical complex
The Pitards spent the mornings during their first year in business cleaning up syringes, used condoms and human feces left behind their restaurant, chased sex workers away throughout the day and worried every night that perhaps they made a terrible mistake.
"People opening my door, trying to coerce me into buying their crack and drugged-up women. Each night I was awakened to screaming and yelling. The rooms smell like death and to top it all, there were syringes in the desk drawer. Overall, if you stay here after reading this, then there is no hope for you."
Renters who run into conflicts with landlords in Louisiana have few rights to invoke and face an eviction process that moves at a speed unheard of in other states, housing advocates say.