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Will Sutton: Focus on Louisiana "tax reform" while lawmakers aim to jail 14-year-olds
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Will Sutton: Focus on Louisiana "tax reform" while lawmakers aim to jail 14-year-olds

  • BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist

Columnist Will Sutton has something to say about Gov. Jeff Landry's third special session this year. It was held to focus on "tax reform." It included SB2, a measure that wouldn't let legislators bypass voters in choosing which crimes committed by minors should be treated as adult crimes.

"Some simply want to put more people, especially minors, behind bars. The proposed constitutional amendment, if approved by voters, would allow lawmakers to treat 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds as adults without asking citizens if that's what they want," Sutton writes.

Letters: Brady helped advance justice
Letters

Letters: Brady helped advance justice

  • Deidre Howard and Donna Howard Kennon

What a sad day to read the announcement that Judge James Brady had passed away. My sister and I were standing only a few feet away when the ph…

Opinion

Letters: Brady helped advance justice

  • Deidre Howard and Donna Howard Kennon

What a sad day to read the announcement that Judge James Brady had passed away. My sister and I were standing only a few feet away when the photograph accompanying your article was taken. That was the day, to our surprise, we would have the honor of meeting Brady on Oct. 3, 2016. He and his wife had come to hear Albert Woodfox speak at Southern University. The crowd did not even seem to realize that Judge Brady had slipped in until nearly the end of the program, when the moderator announced how pleased she was that the senior federal judge for the Middle District of Louisiana was able to join us. She asked Judge Brady to stand, and every head quickly turned to the back of the room to see the rise of his towering figure.