Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
The staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. received the 2019 Local Reporting Prize “for a damning portrayal of the state’s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.”
The staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. received the 2019 Local Reporting Prize “for a damning portrayal of the state’s discriminatory conviction system, including a Jim Crow-era law, that enabled Louisiana courts to send defendants to jail without jury consensus on the accused’s guilt.”
