On September 20th, our New Orleans community met with candidates vying for our city’s top leadership positions. The Youth Connections Festival and Town Hall offered the opportunity for community members to ask questions about the candidates’ policy goals for youth. Through a storytelling circle, LCCR made sure that youth voices were heard.
Last year, Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice spent $165.6 million to operate the state’s prison system. Gov. Landry is now proposing spending $93 million more this year. Here are some better ways we can invest taxpayer dollars that will enhance public safety in Louisiana.
In the 1990s, an academic named John Dilulio published an article describing the “superpredator.” He explained that a “moral poverty” in U.S. cities would result in a flood of 30,000 murderous teenagers, born criminals lacking in empathy or restraint. This gave a name to an existing societal fear of Black children. Today, with new laws…
