Pastor awaiting new murder trial seeks return to St. John Parish jail
Errol Victor’s attorneys, Graham Bosworth and Autumn Town, are fighting to get him returned to St. John the Baptist Parish jail.
Credit: WWL-TV Published: 5:35 PM CDT July 23, 2021 Updated: 5:36 PM CDT July 23, 2021
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. The strange story of a Louisiana pastor charged with murdering his 8-year-old stepson continues to get stranger.
Errol Victor Sr. is still being held in Louisiana’s state prison system, 14 months after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his murder conviction because it was unconstitutional and more than a year after the state Department of Corrections returned him to the custody of the local sheriff.
In Louisiana, many still lack broadband access
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In Louisiana, many still lack broadband access
Ledyard King and Mike Stucka
USA TODAY NETWORK
As federal officials debate pouring billions of dollars into broadband access, data suggests many of Louisiana s schoolchildren and adults who preferred to work from home spent the pandemic with sub-par access to high-speed internet, particularly in the state s least-wealthy parishes.
Advocates say that digital divide across the United States is due largely to two factors: a lack of internet infrastructure in the country s rural reaches and the relatively high cost of broadband that has made the service unaffordable for many in urban centers.
In about half of Louisiana s parishes 33 of 64 measured by a Federal Communications Commission study, broadband access is available to at least 72% of residents. Yet in about half of the state measured by Microsoft 33 of 64 parishes no more than 17% of households actually have high-speed access, a USA TODAY analysis shows.