LaNaisha Edwards was 15 when she started going to funerals in the mid-1990s. By her senior year, getting dressed for another memorial service “became the normal thing to do — sadly” in Los Angeles, she said. By September 2010, the plague of gun violence that destroyed other families hit too close to home. Her 24-year-old […] The post Reform Rollbacks May Lead to Another Rise in Mass Incarceration appeared first on Capital B News.
Gerald Barnes, who was accused in an Easter day shootout in Gentilly that killed one man and injured another, pleaded guilty on Monday to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Orleans Parish Criminal Magistrate Court ordered Gwen s Law hearings in 98 of 779 eligible cases over a seven-month period, according to a new report.
Amid a nationwide downturn in violent crime, New Orleans children have seemingly been left behind. Seventeen juveniles have been murdered in the city so far this year, according to NOPD,