
Jillian Kramer
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Reporter for the Times-Picayune | @NOLAnews // Also, freelance journalist for the New York Times, National Geographic, and more.
New Orleans, LA
Joined April 2009
Thank you so much to @LMattersNews @IRE_NICAR — @joey_cranney, @BrettMmurphy, @BetsBarnes and @luluramadan — for including my series "Longing for Justice" in this week's newsletter. It's such an honor! .
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New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustra...
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RT @emily_woodruff_: Incredible work by @jilliankramer & @jadelson. Their deep dive shows Orleans Parish Criminal Court takes nearly 3 year….
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New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustra...
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RT @aegallo: Our latest @NOLAnews project from @jilliankramer and @jadelson. Murder cases in New Orleans move through court at a slower pac….
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New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustra...
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RT @joey_cranney: Murder cases in New Orleans are more likely to drag for 5+ years than be resolved within 1 year. One of the country's de….
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New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustra...
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I’m at the #IRE25 @IRE_NICAR conference today and the rest of the week. If we’re journalist friends here and you want to be journalist friends IRL, send me a message so we can meet!.
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"An unrelenting insurance crisis is ripping the social fabric" of southern Louisiana, leaving residents to wonder "how they can ever recover." @samkarlin's powerful reporting on how skyrocketing insurance costs are killing Louisiana's towns is a must-read.
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They’re used to rebuilding their homes and businesses after hurricanes, but most Terrebonne Parish residents are struggling to weather a different kind of storm. “It’s not going to be hurricanes that...
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Need a pothole filled in New Orleans? That'll take about a year, @joey_cranney reports in a new series on the city's deteriorating infrastructure and what it costs residents.
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No city is flush with as much cash, per capita, as New Orleans. Yet its infrastructure continues to deteriorate. The fallout of the dysfunction is borne by New Orleanians everywhere, in ways large...
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RT @rjamesfinn: A Baton Rouge judge quashed a murder indictment because the state didn't follow a law letting people with felonies on jurie….
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State lawmakers enacted a law more than two years ago that gave certain felons in Louisiana the right to serve on jury panels.
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RT @aegallo: Today we unveil "For Dear Life," my deep dive for @NOLAnews/@theadvocatebr into why Louisiana's infant mortality rates are amo….
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MONROE — With each sweep of the ultrasound wand across Amber Davis’s protruding belly, her diagnosis grew more dire.
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RT @joey_cranney: Thanks @roywoodjr! . Check out @LMattersNews for a free weekly roundup of the country's best local investigative reportin….
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RT @jmderobertis: New: The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on a lawsuit that aims to remove youth from Angola, saying the facilit….
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The federal government has weighed in on a lawsuit that aims to remove youth from a temporary site at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, saying the facility is seriously
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RT @rjamesfinn: Thanks to @Louisiana_Press for awarding my and @lea_skene's story on ankle monitors the first place news story award in the….
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Long before the murder-suicide, Van Hopkins had been warned.
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RT @jmderobertis: “I would not dare to keep my dog in these conditions for fear of my dog dying,” a doctor wrote in the emergency filing.….
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One year after officials announced they would move certain high-risk teens to a temporary facility on Louisiana State Penitentiary grounds, attorneys for some of the youth have filed an emergency
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RT @rjamesfinn: Thanks to Green Eyeshade Awards (the southern regional @spj_tweets contest) for recognizing my, @aegallo and @PaulCobler’s….
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RT @joey_cranney: NOPD is using an obscure offense that most states have wiped from their statutes to ramp up gun arrests, @jadelson & @jil….
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Data shows that more than 90% of those arrested in the discretionary stops are Black.
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RT @helenprejean: “Dignity is not just for people who are innocent. And to strap a person down — to render them completely defenseless — an….
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Attorneys with the New Orleans-based Capital Appeal Project made a historic request that morning, filing clemency applications for 51 of the 57 people on the state’s death row.
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I had the pleasure of speaking with @helenprejean yesterday shortly after attorneys filed clemency applications on behalf of nearly all people on Louisiana's death row. Here's what she had to say.
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Attorneys with the New Orleans-based Capital Appeal Project made a historic request that morning, filing clemency applications for 51 of the 57 people on the state’s death row.
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And follow all @NOLAnews on this developing story here:
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Almost all of Louisiana's death row inmates filed for clemency on Tuesday morning, meaning they asked for Governor John Bel Edwards to spare their lives.
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Who's on Louisiana's death row? You can find out here.
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Almost all Louisiana death row inmates asked Governor John Bel Edwards to spare their lives on Tuesday morning.
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