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The feds failed to track deaths in America's jails — and Louisiana is a poster child

Por: The Advocate Crime September 24, 2022

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Louisiana took center stage at a Congressional hearing in Washington this week as Senators grilled Department of Justice officials over the feds’ failure to track fatalities in prisons and jails across the United States.A face of that plight presented to a Senate subcommittee — and to people across the country — was Vanessa Fano, whose brother, Jonathan Fano, hanged himself in his cell after 10 weeks inside the East Baton Rouge Parish... + full article



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