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He rammed a get-tough-on-crime package through the state Legislature.
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He rammed a get-tough-on-crime package through the state Legislature.
He rammed a get-tough-on-crime package through the state Legislature.
“If we want our system to work, there's an opportunity and role for us to be involved,” Snowden said.
A coalition of Black New Orleans civic leaders has galvanized around the goal of fending off intensifying incursions from state leaders into the city's local governance.
In Louisiana, at least 1,601 people are still incarcerated on the basis of a Jim Crow–era law allowing for conviction by a nonunanimous verdict.