Christina Dent talks about founding End It For Good, her journey to rethinking drugs and addiction and how Mississippi can change its approach, too

Despite the opioid crisis’ deadly toll, U.S police treat drug use as a criminal issue. But in the Netherlands, a public health approach has seen better results.

It will become illegal next month to use a phone while driving in Louisiana unless it’s for hands-free calls or navigation.

Louisiana authorities have captured one of two remaining fugitives who escaped from the New Orleans jail six weeks ago.

Attorney General Liz Murrill is pressing the Louisiana Supreme Court to come up with standards that she hopes will bring to an end the extended appeals of five people facing the death penalty.

Order requires that officials monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. If heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade.

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear the appeal of a former Louisiana prison inmate whose dreadlocks were cut off by prison guards in violation of his religious beliefs.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention.

A quick warning — today’s episode is about the death penalty and includes talk about recent executions and methods.

Prosecutors have asked a state appeals court to reinstate the death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan, whose 27-year-old murder conviction was nullified in April after his attorneys argued that it was based in part on shoddy forensic evidence.