From @veritenews.org Wilmer Guevara Brito was in the country on a humanitarian parole program that covered hundreds of thousands of immigrants. But Trump pulled the plug on it last year. And Guevara Brito was picked up during operation Catahoula Crunch. veritenews.org/2026/02/27/c...
Because of contract disputes, cost and legislative hurdles, it will likely take years before the remainder of the city’s tens of thousands of lead pipes are replaced. from @veritenews.org @halleparker.bsky.social veritenews.org/2026/02/19/e...
@veritenews features famed Edna Karr band as it prepares for Mardi Gras veritenews.org/2026/02/16/e...
The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.” veritenews.org/2026/02/05/m...
@veritenews.org @tristanbaurick.bsky.social @halleparker.bsky.social tested lead levels at more than 80 New Orleans parks. Even trace amounts of the toxic metal can cause learning problems and behavioral issues in children. Read the results here: veritenews.org/2026/02/05/p...
Vital local reporting: Louisiana Paroles Its Lowest Number of Prisoners in 20 Years Under Gov. Jeff Landry, by @richardawebster.bsky.social @veritenews.org
9--“This equates to more complex cases being considered by the Committee on Parole,” Abbott said in a statement. The Landry administration did not respond to requests for comment.
8--Francis Abbott, director of the parole board, said people convicted of violent crimes and sex offenses now make up a higher percentage of the state’s prison population, which has resulted in fewer parole hearings and approvals.
7--“Tough on crime doesn’t work,” a former Louisiana parole board member said about Landry’s new policy. “All it produces is mass incarceration, which costs us more than rehabilitating the individual and making them taxpayers, not tax burdens.”
6--Louisiana’s prison population will nearly double in six years because of the state’s changes to parole, one expert estimates. It costs $37K a year to house an inmate compared with $2.2K a year for parole supervision.
5—Landry also appointed five new people to the seven-member board, including ex-Sheriff Steve Prator, who once said prior criminal justice reforms would release “good” inmates whom prisons depended on “to wash cars” and “cook in the kitchen.”
4—These changes caused the number of parole applications to dramatically fall. In the two years prior to Landry’s Jan 2024 inauguration, the board held 1,785 hearings. That number dropped to 714 since Landry became governor.
3—Landry and his fellow Republicans in the state Legislature overhauled Louisiana’s parole system through a 2024 law that banned parole altogether for anyone convicted after Aug. 1 of that year, and instituted strict eligibility requirements for those already incarcerated.
2—That 78% drop means hundreds of people who would’ve been released under previous governors remain incarcerated with little chance of parole. veritenews.org/2026/01/27/l...
1--Louisiana’s parole board freed 185 prisoners during Gov. Jeff Landry’s tenure, down from 858 in the two years before he took office, according to an analysis by @veritenews.org and @propublica.org . THREAD
Important story from @tristanbaurick.bsky.social @veritenews.org In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood-pellet mills say they’re getting sick. veritenews.org/2026/01/23/d...
Jimmie Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish jail last week and into the arms of his parents after spending 27 years on death row. But Duncan’s journey to freedom is far from over. Prosecutors want to reinstate his death sentence. @propublica.org @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2025/12/03/j...
They left Honduras to save their daughters’ lives. Now they must return to stay together as U.S. Border Patrol agents prepare for Louisiana surge. @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2025/11/28/i...
5. Louisiana paroled nine prisoners to deport them. We found that at least two have been deported, while two others are being held at a new immigration detention facility. But neither ICE nor the Landry admin would answer questions about the other five. www.propublica.org/article/loui...
4. To help fulfill Trump’s mass deportation agenda, Louisiana has taken aggressive steps to deliver. These actions include granting state agencies the authority to conduct certain ICE duties and paroling prisoners in order to deport them.
3. One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft. Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
2. One by one, each of the nine prisoners appeared virtually before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board.
“Today you’ve been paroled,” the chair said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation.”
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1. Louisiana’s governor eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those arrested before. Then he tossed those rules aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported. @veritenews.org @propublica.org
After more than 25 years on death row, Jimmie Duncan inched one step closer to freedom Friday when Judge Alvin Sharp in Ouachita Parish granted him bail, setting it at $150,000. @veritenews.org @propublica.org veritenews.org/2025/11/21/j...
Join @veritenews.org tomorrow for an off-the-record conversation about our city, our coverage, and the people behind both. Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. at The Tchoup Yard, 405 Third St., New Orleans. www.eventbrite.com/e/off-the-re...
See our previous reporting in partnership with @propublica.org here: veritenews.org/2025/08/25/l...
A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a hearing will be held to consider whether a swastika drawn on Lloyd Gray's DA file infected his case with racial bias. @veritenews.org veritenews.org/2025/10/30/l...
In this incredible piece for @newsweek.com , Henrick Karoliszyn details his own experience as a crime reporter to highlight the need for mental health care services among journalists, and freelancers in particular. Please read and share. www.newsweek.com/crime-report...
