Nick Chrastil

@samkarlin Kinda sounds like one of your little poker nights...

@nchrastil What book?

#TheLensNola🔍 Since prisoners challenged conditions on the Farm Line, state officials have implemented policies making them even worse, lawyers contend. ✍️: @NChrastil Read the full story here ⬇️ buff.ly/1WUNcPI

@JSODonoghue @LAGovJeffLandry Maybe I should learn how to hunt?!!

The doctor acting as an expert witness for Louisiana as they seek to carry out the state's first ever execution by nitrogen hypoxia has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last nine years by states defending their execution protocols — thelensnola.org/2025/03/17/the…

When Jessie Hoffman, who was scheduled to be executed at Angola next week by nitrogen gas, filed a grievance with the prison challenging the method they told him they might issue a response *after* his execution date.

Looks like the Landry admin has decided that providing $40 a month to children for lunch over the summer is not, in fact, an impediment to "self-sufficiency"

A legislatively created commission has issued its proposal for spending $100M set aside to build or repair juvenile detention centers, adult jails and prisons & other criminal justice infrastructure. List goes to Joint Legislative Committee on Budget for final decision. #lalege

#TheLensNola🔍 Emails reveal state officials considered a barge shelter in the Industrial Canal—while prominent local developers knew before some city officials. ✍: @NChrastil Read more at the 🔗 below! buff.ly/3WXiRPw

New: Emails show state leaders considered using a barge moored in the Industrial Canal as a homeless shelter ahead of the Super Bowl, and that several prominent local businessmen were involved in discussions long before city officials: thelensnola.org/2025/02/12/beh…

.@LAGovJeffLandry has announced that the LA DOC has updated the death penalty protocols. Here is the brief update. The Governor and AG have reiterated their support for carrying out executions. #lalege #lagov

.@LAGovJeffLandry had cabinet secretaries/legislators sign "blank NDAs" that apparently prevented @SpkrDeVillier from disclosing the intent of tax legislation with other lawmakers before asking them to vote on the bill. #lalege theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne…

Towns across Louisiana clamor to build new juvenile detention centers, requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding from a new criminal justice commission created by lawmakers (from @nchrastil) thelensnola.org/2024/12/16/tow… #lalege

Over $500 million is being requested to add over 2,000 jail and detention beds. There are a lot of specifics in those applications our story doesn't dig into, but will be important to the local communities where the projects are proposed.

For other reporters or anyone else interested, here is a link to all the applications requesting state funding to build and renovate jails and juvenile detention centers in Louisiana. dropbox.com/scl/fo/n7751yh…

#TheLensNola🔍 Local governments in Louisiana are seeking over $500 million in state funding to expand, renovate, and build new jails and juvenile detention facilities. ✍: @NChrastil For more details, click the 🔗 below. buff.ly/3OXy8LN

New: Louisiana has paid a jail in Jackson Parish nearly $2 million over the last year to house kids in state custody, despite repeated allegations of neglect and abuse. Now, they're ending the contract. thelensnola.org/2024/11/25/lou…

During their special session on taxes, Louisiana lawmakers are also considering a constitutional amendment that could eventually make it easier to send more minors (teenagers who are 14, 15, 16 years old) to adult prison. #lalege lailluminator.com/2024/11/08/lou…