These escapes were more than an act, they were a symptom. They signal the breaking point in a system long frayed by injustice ...

The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the ...

This week on Behind The Lens, the largest new delta in North America is forming through a naturally occurring sediment diversion on the Mississippi River. Scientists there say the land-building power ...

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Bejasa, an avid bicyclist who spent three months in a wheelchair after being hit by a car, asks Lens readers to join her at ...

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

Disciplinary incidents dropped sharply within the Orleans Justice Center with the advent of electronic tablets, which stay on for 17 hours a day, bringing those in the jail new options — movies, music ...