The Loyola University Law School in New Orleans is putting together a database of inmate deaths at all Louisiana prisons. The project is the brainchild of Professor Andrea Armstrong who says up until now there hasn’t been a centralized collection of data about when, where, and how prisoners die at Louisiana correctional facilities.
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Armstrong says 80 percent of US prisons go a full calendar year without an inmate death. With this database, we can measure how Louisiana prisons stack up.

State Agriculture and Forestry investigators have charged two individuals with simple arson for setting fire on land owned by others in Vernon Parish. Ag Commissioner Mike Strain says Laura Lee and Robert Ramirez of Leesville committed arson in an effort to get rid of snakes near their property. Strain says if you have a snake problem, instead of committing a felony…
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Governor Edwards has called a 2:30 press conference to provide an update on the state’s response to COVID-19. The current phase three coronavirus restrictions order expires tomorrow. And The state health department reports one-point-one million people have had at least one vaccine shot, which is more than 25-percent of the state’s population.

The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s office investigated five infant deaths last year that were the result of unsafe sleeping conditions. Brooke Thorington on how the coroner is addressing this issue…
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