Kat Stromquist

1 month ago | wwno.org | Kat Stromquist

New Orleans joined in on global May Day demonstrations Thursday, with hundreds gathering for a raucous march and roving rally to protest President Donald Trump's policies while saluting the labor movement. In the Crescent City, the event tied together the traditional day celebrating workers' rights and immigration issues. Speakers and attendees condemned Trump's border crackdown that's led to the detention of students, activists and people without documents.

1 month ago | wwno.org | Kat Stromquist

In roughly nine years since he first came to Louisiana State Penitentiary, Patrick Jones has picked corn, okra, cabbage and beans by hand. He’s cut grass. He’s baled hay. He’s made sandbags and carried them — all as an incarcerated worker on the site's "farm line."But for people at the prison commonly referred to as Angola, being sent to the "farm line" is not quite the same as other work assignments, Jones testified in a federal courtroom this week.

1 month ago | krvs.org | Kat Stromquist

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session that began Monday touch on capital punishment, aiming to refine processes amid a press by Louisiana officials to carry out more death sentences. Two bills filed thus far have provisions that concern who can be present when a person on death row is killed. The issue played a prominent role in the case of Jessie Hoffman Jr., whose lawyers argued unsuccessfully for the ability to attend his execution last month.

2 months ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick |Kat Stromquist

Amid calls from President Donald Trump for a nationwide immigration crackdown and an end to so-called “sanctuary” policies, at least two Louisiana law enforcement agencies have recently joined forces with federal immigration authorities, enlisting local officers to identify and detain undocumented immigrants in their custody.

2 months ago | wwno.org | Kat Stromquist

A district judge won't stand in the way of votes being counted in a legal challenge to two of four amendments to Louisiana's Constitution that appear on Saturday's ballot, but said the case can otherwise move forward. The case, brought this month by several voter plaintiffs and the group Voice of the Experienced — which is led by formerly incarcerated people — largely objects to processes by which Amendments 1 and 3 made it to voters.