(Staff Pick) New Orleans native Malayne Schmidt shared her Virginia Beach, Virginia sunroom office where she works as a designer for an architectural firm. (Second Place) Accompanied by her goats — Marco and Greta — at her Bywater home, Angelique Thomas…
Social workers help ensure every person has resources and opportunities, and that work hasn’t stopped during the global COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, it’s adapted and increased because creative, passionate people have dedicated themselves to it. Angelique Thomas, LMSW (SW ‘2016)…
IPNO’s Monday Memo: TAKE ACTION NOW Six days before the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC) shut down its prisons from visitors, I visited with one of our innocent, life-sentenced prisoners. He was recovering from an illness and explained how he…
How would your life and the lives of your family be impacted if you were wrongly imprisoned for one week? One month? One year? How would that wrongful incarceration affect your career, financial stability, physical and mental health? How much…
By Richard A. Webster ALEXANDRIA, La. — An emergency broadcast alert blares from Elvis Brooks’s cellphone, warning him that a tornado has been spotted in the area. “Seek shelter now,” the electronic voice urges. Brooks shrugs off the threat, though his…
By Sherman Desselle HARVEY, La. — On a chilly Thursday evening in Harvey, Malcolm Alexander plays a game of catch with his black female Labrador, Innocence. Alexander is jumping for joy just like his dog after hearing about her newest…
By Emily Bazelon In 2011, Michael Shannon was wrongly convicted of murder, even though two jurors voted to acquit him — a result of a Louisiana law rooted in discrimination. But for defendants like Shannon — and the holdout jurors…
By Dara Sharif A New Orleans man who has long maintained he was wrongly convicted of murder experienced freedom for the first time in 42 years after a virtual deal with the devil won him his liberty, if not true…
By John Simerman A 62-year-old man who left New Orleans as a teenager for a life in prison on a murder conviction will be released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola under a deal offered last week by Orleans…
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