Louisiana Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc says unless the leiglsature approves a tax bill to increase state revenues, he’ll be forced to release 10-thousand inmates starting July 1st. LeBlanc says his department is currently looking at a 75-million dollar cut. He says the inmates they would release would not be violent or sex offenders.

Louisiana’s health department says they will move people with serious mental illnesses out of state nursing homes and into community-based settings. Executive counsel for L-D-H, Stepen Russo, says they’ve already moved more than 25-hundred mentally ill people to community settings and more health screenings are underway…
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This initative is the result of a lawsuit that claimed the state was violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not having seriously mentally ill in community-based settings.

Only 53 percent of black men at Nicholls come back to school after their freshman year, so the University is starting a new mentorship program called CROWN…
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Summertime is here and many kids are enjoying time away from the classroom, but experts say its an important time to keep kids engaged in learning. So what are the best ways to do that? The State Department of Education’s Rebecca Kockler says parents need to make learning exciting during the summer break.
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