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The LSU Testing Center line on Thursday that stretched back to Middleton Library was the result of 3,500 scheduled tests and a fire alarm.

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LSU students form Tiger Prison Project, work towards state prison reform

BY ANNA JONES @annajoneses Sociology and political science senior Emily Cannon discovered her passion for prison reform early in her high school career.

Going to a large public high school in New Orleans, she recalled it was common for classmates to disappear for a few months, only to come back with stories about their jail time.

“My friends started to get arrested for status offenses, misdemeanors here and there,” Cannon said. “We all get involved in debauchery when we’re kids, but you can tell there are certain people more likely to be impacted.”

Cannon researched mass incarceration and was shocked to find out Louisiana was ranked No. 1 in the world for incarceration rates at the time.

The U.S. has long reigned as the country with the highest imprisonment rates. Out of the 50 states, Louisiana spent many years as the prison capital of the world. Oklahoma surpassed Louisiana in 2018, but The Pelican State’s incarceration rates remain the second highest in the world, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.

Cannon was unsure how to engage with her newfound passion until she enrolled at the University and started interning for the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal organization dedicated to exonerating wrongly convicted prisoners. She was inspired to put her passion for prison reform into action by founding the Tiger Prison Project, a student organization dedicated to educating students and sparking change in Louisiana’s prison system.

The club will explore how one’s race can affect the likelihood of being arrested and sentenced and have an effect on how one is treated in prison. Cannon believes it is no coincidence Louisiana and Oklahoma share both southern roots and inflated incarceration rates.

“Given the existing research, you can see a direct line between slavery and mass incarceration,” Cannon said. “We’ve created an apparatus of punishment. We all know someone who’s been in prison or is currently sitting in one.”

After recent criminal justice reforms that increased parole eligibility, abolished juvenile life sentences and revisited mandatory sentencing issues, Louisiana’s total prison population has dropped by 7.6 %. Still, Louisiana’s incarceration rates rest well above the national average, affecting not only prisoners and their families, but also the state’s taxpayers.

Sociology senior and Tiger Prison Project vice president, Gabrielle Milford, echoed the parallels between prison systems and slavery.

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“We’ve created a new form of slavery,” Milford said. “Like how we just recently got the right to vote for [felons]. It creates all this separation between [felons] and the rest of society.”

Meetings for the Tiger Prison Project take place in 109 Coates Hall on various Wednesdays throughout the school year. They will often feature special guest speakers. To remain an active member, students have to attend a certain number of service events and pay $15 in dues each semester.

The Tiger Prison Project’s first meeting on Wednesday featured special guest speaker Andrew Hundley, an LSU alumni and former juvenile lifer who was released on parole in 2016.

Hundley is also the executive director of the Parole Project, a non-profit dedicated to re-integrating juvenile lifers and prisoners who served over 20 years back into modernized society. The Tiger Prison Project will be partnering with Hundley and the Parole Project, along with several other like-minded organizations in the Baton Rouge area, for service projects and learning opportunities.

Hundley served 19 years in prison for second-degree murder. and he acknowledges that white privilege may have been a factor in him being released before others.

“I was given a second chance,” Hundley said. “Privilege is one reason. I’m not going to cover it up or make it sound like something different.”

Hundley was the first juvenile lifer to be released in the state after the Supreme Court decided in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the rulings in Miller v. Alabama prohibiting juvenile life sentences should apply retroactively.

The man who filed the petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, Henry Montgomery, is now 72 and still sits in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for a crime he committed at 17.

“I’m not more deserving than Henry,” Hundley said. “A lot of times, when you’re the individual that makes change for other people, you don’t get to experience that change.”

Hundley said he got out because his parents could afford an attorney, and he received many opportunities while in prison because of the way he looked. He recalled people giving sympathy towards him because of his skin color.

“People said, ‘you look like you could be my son,’ or, ‘you look like you don’t deserve to be here.’ Whatever that means,” Hundley said.

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to drive, get a credit card or use a cell phone. Still, even a few months in prison can be enough to affect the trajectory of someone’s life.

Cannon similarly recalled how a friend was arrested for smoking marijuana in his car when he was 16-years-old. He was sentenced to four months in jail, and paid thousands of dollars in legal fees.

“He never recovered from the debt it put him in,” Cannon said. “He still struggles with employment.”

Milford has high hopes for the new organization to raise awareness first in the LSU community, but later within the state and country.

“We’re a huge school,” Milford said. “If we’re all in this, it would make a giant impact. We have the power to do that.”

Cannon sayid she hopes the club will remain strong after she graduates and that the Baton Rouge community will begin to understand and actively work towards fixing some of the issues in the prison system. In her eyes, criminal justice reform transcends political boundaries.

“I’m not concerned with getting recognition for anything,” Cannon said. “I just want people to be having this conversation. I don’t think it should be a partisan issue. It’s about human dignity.”

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Long lines to enter Himes caused by 3,500 scheduled tests, fire alarm

BY ANA BLOCK @anablock_4 If you walked through the Quad on Thursday, there’s no doubt you saw an extremely long line. Unfortunately, it wasn’t for free tuition or to meet Coach Orgeron, but for entering the LSU Testing Center in Himes Hall.

As many students arrived to take their scheduled tests on Thursday, they were met with long, Black Friday-like lines which stretched across the main Quad area. Some students were forced to wait over an hour, leaving many confused and frustrated. management Construction

junior Katie Viccellio was surprised by the amount of people trying to take tests at one time.

“I started in this line at Allen [Hall] and I’ve been standing here for about 20 minutes,” Viccellio said. “I think it’s just a ton of people are here taking tests.”

Theatre sophomore Camille Lanata showed up to the testing center early without knowing about the line, but said she was glad she did.

“I didn’t know Himes was backed up, but I got there early anyways so I could study a bit before,” Lanata said. “My exam was at 2 p.m. I got in line at 1:15 p.m. and didn’t start my exam

until 1:50 p.m.”

The line initiallly resulted because of a large number of students scheduled tests on the same day. There were originally 3,500 students scheduled to test on Thursday, with the testing center checking in around 330 people an hour. This is significantly more than usual, according to David O’Brien, director of Testing and Evaluation Services at the Center for Academic Success.

“The only time we ever see numbers quite that high are during finals,” O’Brien said.

The line continued to grow throughout the day and got progressively worse.

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LSU students wait in a line that stretches to the Quad to enter the LSU Testing Center in Himes Hall on Sept. 19.

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The testing center addressed the situation on Twitter, saying a fire alarm went off in Himes Hall, which caused testing to be halted until the building was deemed safe.

The fire alarm went off at approximately 3:56 p.m., due to a minor issue in the error handling room on the third floor, O’Brien said. This caused about an hour delay in testing times.

There was already a line formed outside of the testing center before the alarm sounded.

O’Brien said that the alarm furthered the issue.

“Up until the point that the fire alarm happened, 76% of people that came to our lab were checked in within five minutes of their scheduled appointment,” O’Brien said. “Ninety-two percent of the people were checked in within 20 minutes of their actual appointment time.”

Although the situation appeared to be out of hand following the alarm, O’Brien said the testing center did a good job of continuously flowing the line and meeting everyone’s appointment times by working as quickly as possible.

“There was a long line, but in spite of the appearance, we were checking people in at or very near their scheduled times,” O’Brien said.

Graphic design sophomore Kailynn Guidry, who had a test scheduled after the alarm, said she stood toward the end of the line for an hour before it even moved at all and was clueless as to what was happening.

“I stood in the line from about 4:20 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. towards

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LSU reacts to Governor’s Debate

BY KATHERINE MANUEL @kmanuel_2 LSU hosted the first gubernatorial debate Thursday, featuring the frontrunners of the race: current Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and his Republican challengers, U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham and businessman Eddie Rispone.

Questions came from Nexstar Media Group moderators Fred Childers, Jacque Jovic and Chad Sabadie and LSU political communication juniors Sarah Procopio and Justin Franklin via pre-recorded video. The candidates were asked about a variety of topics, including e-cigarettes, the expansion of Medicaid, higher education, abortion and their relationships with President Donald Trump.

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the back [of the line] in front of Middleton before it moved at all,” Guidry said. “The whole time I was in line, I never heard anything about what was actually going on.”

The testing center contacted instructors who had students scheduled to take tests during the incident and suggested extending testing windows. Many instructors extended their testing windows to Monday.

The testing center’s online scheduling restriction, which allows students to only schedule tests on the current day once the testing window is open at midnight, was also lifted to give students the opportunity to reschedule their tests to Friday or Monday.

Friday had also been a busy day, with almost 2,300 people scheduled to test in the lab, but the line flowed much smoother than it did on Thursday, O’Brien said.

O’Brien said that lines as long as those seen on Thursday have happened on a few rare occasions, but the testing center works extremely hard to avoid it.

To prevent this from happening again, the testing center plans to work with faculty members to create a more spaced out plan for future testing windows.

Political Communication professor Robert Mann said the format of the debate left little room for meaningful interaction between the candidates.

“The topics were oddly unfocused and seemed random, and the questions were often poorly worded,” Mann said in an email. “And how do you have a statewide debate in Louisiana not talk once about poverty, race or climate change?”

Mann said that a bright spot in the debate was the questions asked by Manship students. The questions asked by Procopio and Franklin were created by Nexstar, and the Reilly Center for Media and Public Affairs recruited students to pose the questions.

Procopio asked candidates to raise their hands if they would support funding TOPS at its current level, and all three candidates raised their hands.

“I’m glad that there was a TOPS question, and I’m glad that a student asked it,” Procopio said.

Procopio said she would’ve liked to see more student direction given to this debate since it took place on campus. While there was a third student question scheduled at the end of the debate, it wasn’t aired due to time constraints.

“I will say that the debate lacked teeth,” Procopio said. “It

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Procopio said replacing the question about e-cigarettes with a question about land loss would have been a good improvement to the debate.

Manship School of Mass Communication dean Martin Johnson felt the debate was a great start to the conversation about the candidates and the

race, which culminates with the Oct. 12 primary election.

“I think for students, and for the broader University community, the question about TOPS from Sarah Procopio was certainly one of the most important questions that we saw them deal with,” Johnson said. “I think we saw on display some different philosophies about the role that government can and should play.”

Music freshman Leah Espinoza said that the debate

raised awareness about the race among student voters, and she hopes more students will vote after seeing what each candidate had to say about topics relevant to students.

“It was a little disappointing that there were no questions asked about education, poverty or even climate change,” Espinoza said. “I thought the most important topic discussed was whether or not they would cut taxes.”

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(From left to right) Eddie Rispone, Gov. John Bel Edwards and Ralph Abraham all spoke during the Gubernatorial debate on Sept. 19 in the Student Union Theater.

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Fringe + Co brings fringe and fun to Louisiana with festive designs

BY ENJANAE’ TAYLOR @_queenet_ Kelsey Campion is “encouraging people to live their best fashion lives” with her fringe frenzy that’s taking over the internet.

The self-taught seamstress and photographer works from home, but will soon need to get a bigger space due to her items being in such high demand. Her clothing line, Fringe + Co, offers fun head wraps and pieces full of sequin and feathers.

Campion has lived in and traveled to many parts of the world, including previously living in Milan. She was inspired by the women and culture there, seeing them wear fashionable head wraps.

This is where her famous head wraps idea began. Campion learned how to sew shortly before moving to New Orleans.

When she got there, she was asked to make head wraps in Mardi Gras colors, and the rest is history.

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er in New Orleans, people supporting small local businesses are the foundation of Campion’s success.

“I mean it’s absolutely everything,” Campion said. “Getting local support has been absolutely monumental to my work and I’m forever grateful for all of the support and love I get from New Orleans.”

Campion originally moved to New Orleans because she had family that lived there, then she fell in love with the city. After experiencing her first Mardi Gras, she was drawn to ultimately have her business there.

The business owner has lived in New Orleans for the past 12 years and now calls the city home, getting most of her inspiration from the busy and crazy atmosphere. Campion finds it an easy place to be inspired and feels like it allows her to be her most creative self.

Along with making clothing, Campion takes all of her photos for Fringe + Co. She got her first camera when she was 13-years-

old and ignited her passion with photography. All of her looks and photo shoots are based off of what Campion would want to see and wear.

This includes Fringe + Co’s bold and fresh football themed attire. Campion has designed Saints and LSU apparel that is unique including feathers and sequins.

“I mean, I remember going to college games and stuff and everybody wanted to get dressed up and there weren’t a whole lot of options,” Campion said. “So, when I started doing some of the shirts, I was like I should probably do some Saints shirts and the reception over the last couple years has been really great.”

Along with local support, Campion also strongly believes in supporting the local economy and the local community herself, so she keeps everything local and environmentally friendly.

“I definitely try to reuse vintage and/or styles that are going to be either thrown away or

contribute to the fashion industry and have a big part in pollution. Being able to use things that otherwise might be overlooked is kind of integral part of my business,” Campion said.

Inclusivity is another integral part of her business.

Campion has a wide range of models, showcasing the range of clothing Fringe + Co has to offer.

Campion eventually wants to add even more sizes, not wanting anyone to feel left out because they don’t see themselves being represented in the fashion industry. While creating pieces, she wants to be mindful of the message she is sending.

“I try to be as mindful of reflecting that in any marketing I do with different models and clothing so there’s accurate representation for multiple groups,” Campion said.

Fringe + Co is doing a Saints pop-up on Sep. 28, at the Buff Beauty Bar in New Orleans. The shop can be found at https:// fringe-co.com/ and on Instagram @fringe.and.company.

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Fran Flory’s impact as volleyball coach extends off the court

BY ALEXANDRA COX @alexandracox123 Family over everything — A phrase that is plastered all over LSU volleyball coach Fran Flory’s office. To Flory, her athletes are much more than just her way to a national championship ring — they are her life.

This season, Flory is celebrating 22 years as the head coach of the Tigers. A job she describes as her dream job since she got into coaching. Flory said those 22 years have taught her more about life and herself than she could have imagined.

Flory, the winningest coach in program history, has led the Tigers to nine NCAA Tournament berths in the last 14 seasons.

Under Flory, the Tigers have averaged 19 wins per season since 2005, including the 2009 Southeastern Conference championship.

She has coached 12 American Volleyball Coaches Association All-South Region First-Team picks which include a pair of AVCA All-Americans from 2007-09 and again in 2017.

Flory was hailed as the 2009 Southeastern Conference and AVCA South Region Coach of the Year.

“It is more than just about winning,” Flory said. “Yes, winning is important, but it is about molding these girls into young women who will go out and succeed in their career and in life.”

Looking back on her time with the Tigers, Flory recalled the a moment that defined how she viewed coaching during her first season with the Tigers.

They were playing a tough Auburn team, and LSU had been struggling in past matches. LSU played well against Auburn, but ended up

falling short in four sets.

Flory recalled being upset as she felt they should have won.

They had every chance to win but did not.

Going back into the locker room, she said she heard a lot of the girls celebrating and excited.

Taken back by the celebration, Flory asked the girls why they were so happy. Their answer has stayed with her for life.

The girls said that they lost the match but they won a set — something they had not done in SEC play in over a year.

“I learned from that day that you can’t take things for granted in coaching,” Flory said. “You have to know every piece and play and every mentality of every person. You have to figure out how to melt that together to have everyone driving in the same direction.”

“It made me much broader and opened my vision,” Florsy said.

“It’s not just the drive, it’s what kids have to overcome to have the drive.”

While Flory’s relationship with her players is everything, having a strong relationship with her fellow coaches is just as important.

Assistant coach Sarah Rumely feels that Flory gives so much more of herself than other coaches, making her a unique and special coach.

Rumely said Flory cares about her players personal well-being just much, if not more, as she does about them as players.

“She is always studying and trying to make her girls get better at even the smallest of things,” Rumely said. “She is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. She is so passionate about so many different things. She also has this unbelievable way of connecting with everyone and making everyone she comes into contact with feel so special.”

LSU’s historic offensive approach

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Head coach Fran Flory applauds the team during the Lady Tigers’ 3-0 win over the University of Houston on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2017, at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

While Flory’s ultimate goal is to win a national championship, something no female coach has ever done in the history of collegiate volleyball, the more important goal for Flory is to reach her kids and to teach them something of value.

Success to Flory is making a

positive change in her player’s lives. Flory said she wants her legacy at LSU to be known as someone who cared and made a difference.

“I pride myself on making all of my teams a family,” Flory said. “And to me, family is everything.”

When LSU senior quarterback Joe Burrow said he thought the Tigers offense could score 40, 50 or even 60 points a game, fans and critics alike simaltaneously giggled at the thought of LSU putting up numbers anywhere close to that.

“I think we’re going to be really explosive,” Burrow said. “I think the old narrative is going to go away that you guys like writing about. I think it’s going to be really good for us.”

The Tigers put on an offensive clinic in their home opener against Georgia Southern, scoring 42 points — 35 of which came courtesy of Burrow’s arm — in the first half.

LSU finished the game with 55 points, but it could’ve been much more had the Tigers kept their foot on the gas pedal in the second half. Nonetheless, the dominating performance by Burrow and the entire offensive seemed to validate everything coming from LSU’s locker room this off-season.

They followed up with 45 points against top-10 opponent Texas in Austin, and then 65 points against Northwestern State.

Through three games, the Tigers averaged 55 points per game, good for fourth in the country.

Gone are the days of the toss dive and two receivers running routes off play-action while running backs and tight ends stayed in to block. The Tigers have athletes at each skill position, and plan on using all of them.

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Football defense feeling the effects of new offensive philosophy

BY BRANDON ADAM @badam___ NASHVILLE, TN – LSU’s 66-38 win over Vanderbilt may be the ultimate display and contrast of the new LSU Tigers compared to the teams before them.

The score entering the fourth quarter was 10-3 the last time LSU played Vanderbilt in 2010. LSU scored 17 points in the fourth and won 27-3 in a fairly traditional, uninspiring performance under former coach Les Miles.

Nine years ago, LSU’s standout player offensively was running back Stevan Ridley. Ridley carried

the ball 17 times for 159 yards and a touchdown while Russell Sheppard and Alfred Blue each chipped in touchdowns.

Quarterback Jordan Jefferson finished the game 8-of-20 passing for 96 yards with an interception.

The star power resided on LSU’s defense. The Tigers were built on the backs of Patrick Peterson, Kelvin Sheppard, Drake Nevis and Tyrann Mathieu along with a host of other future NFL players.

The score entering the fourth quarter on Saturday: 59-31.

The 77-point differential between the scores indicates not only

how college football has evolved and how LSU’s offense finally caught up to evolution, but also highlights the momentary struggles of LSU’s defenses.

LSU’s star power currently resides on offense, led by senior quarterback Joe Burrow and an explosive group of wide receivers.

Yes, there’s still studs in LSU’s secondary like senior cornerback Kristian Fulton, junior safety Grant Delpit and freshman cornerback Derek Stingley, but the defense overall has looked subpar in the last three games.

Vanderbilt running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn rushed for 41

yards on the first play Saturday.

The Commodores were able to turn it into a touchdown, taking a 7-0 lead out the gate. Vaughn continued to gash LSU throughout the game, rushing for 130 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries.

There’s a variety of reasons for why LSU’s defense is struggling in random moments. Start with an offense that has scored under three minutes on extended drives 24 times this season and continuously play at an up-tempo pace.

The more LSU scores and the more time the offense leaves on the clock, the more possessions that

are in the game. It’s a basic logical equation.

“People have to get used to LSU scoring so fast,” said junior safety JaCoby Stevens.

“Like coach O always says, ‘it’s basketball on turf,’ so it basically turns into a possession game…”

“It’s about stopping the opposing offense for this possession and giving our offense an extra possession,” Stevens said.

“We’re obviously going to score 50-something again and they’re going to score quick, which is going to put us on field.”

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the opener alone, the sophomore had four catches for 31 yards and scored the first three touchdowns of his career. Marshall was injured in Saturday’s win against Vanderbilt and underwent surgery Sunday to repair a stress fracture.

Junior wide receiver Justin Jefferson leads LSU with 21 catches for 392 yards and five touchdown he lead the Tigers in all receiving categories a year ago.

But it doesn’t stop there. Fourteen different players caught passes against Georgia Southern, which in part may have been due to the nature of the game, but as a whole is the product of the Tigers’ depth at receiver and running back.

After their first four games, the Tigers will have multiple opportunities to pour on the points this season.

Three of LSU’s remaining eight games are against teams that finished 47th or worse in points allowed in 2018, and while Utah State was ranked 32nd, they only faced two ranked opponents in 2018.

Here’s a look at how some of the top LSU offenses finished in the points per game category: 2006-07: 9th 2007-08: 11th 2003-04: 19th 2013-14: 23rd 2001-02: 29th 1997-98: 29th

LSU only won the time of possession battle once in four games this season, losing it on average by over seven minutes.

It’s why a defense that forced seven three outs and had two interceptions along with a fourth down stop gave up 24 points, excluding the two offensive turnovers that were returned for touchdowns.

Then there’s missed tackles, bad defense on third down and a struggle to generate a consistent pass rush as junior safety Grant Delpit put it. He attributed the missed tackles to overthinking and still feels LSU’s in a good spot defensively.

Follow that up with a variety of injuries in LSU’s front seven and inexperience, and the sum is what LSU coach Ed Orgeron attributed the greatest problem to.

Gap integrity and staying in your assignment.

“If you stay in your gap has nothing to do about being tired or being disciplined,” Orgeron said. “Tackling has nothing to do about being tired. There was nobody that was being tired or being gassed out there.”

“I thought it was a nice cool day, we practiced a lot hotter day,” Orgeron said. “Guys are in good shape.

So there’s no thinking that the offense is going fast or we’re being tired, there’s none of that. There’s no excuse for that in the world.”

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LSU senior quarterback Joe Burrow (9) prepares to pass the ball during the Tigers’ 55-3 victory over Georgia Southern on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019, at Tiger Stadium.

A key statistic for offensive success is the total number of plays run. LSU coach Ed Orgeron mentioned before the season opener just how many plays he wanted to see the offense run.

“We’d like to have about 75, 80 plays a game,” Orgeron said.

“That would be pretty good for us… We’re speeding it up a little bit. I don’t want ‘em to go too fast.

We’ve got to give the defense a chance to rest.”

Through three games, LSU has averaged 69 plays per game, a little under Orgeron’s estimate, but the low number of plays is more of a byproduct of LSU scoring quickly on drives than anything else.

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Louisiana should follow California’s lead, abolish private prisons SAUCE BOSS CÉCILE CÉCILE GIRARD @_cegi_ California made headlines on Sept. 11 for voting to end contracts with private prison companies, a move that will effectively over the state of all for-profit prisons in the next decade. While the difference between a private and a public prison may seem unimportant to most Americans, the difference can enormously affect the quality of life for inmates forced into either of these systems.

Numerous studies show that private prisons experience more overcrowding than public prisons and offer fewer psychiatric and educational services. According to a 2016 study conducted by the Department of Justice, “contract prisons [private prisons] incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than comparable BOP [Federal Bureau of Prisons] institutions.” Further distressing is the fact that lower standards of monitoring for contract prisons means

more instances of violence may have gone unnoticed by the study.

The proliferation of private prisons affects not only the inmates jailed within them, but the correctional officers who guard them. In order to make a bigger profit, private prisons often pay their employees less than public prisons and equip them with less training and fewer methods of defense.

Correctional officers have reported being understaffed, at times outnumbered by inmates 100 to 1, and told not to intervene in inmate fights to protect themselves from any liability. Beyond the threat of bodily harm, the constant stress of dealing with thousands of inmates while unarmed can lead to intense psychological trauma for correctional officers, something reflected in the high rates of turnover for prison employees.

Supporters of the private prison system often point to two supposed pros of the system: lower costs for the government and higher profits for local communities.

The economic benefits of private prisons are not so clear. Com-

parisons of the two are difficult to make, since the inmate populations and methods of counting costs differ, but there is only a negligible difference in cost. Private prisons still receive a stipend from the government to function, and any profit they make benefits the contracting company, not the local economy.

The private prison system came into full swing during the infamous “Tough on Crime” mentality of the 1980s, when the swell in the number of prisoners outpaced the number of federal prisons available to house them, causing the government to turn to outsourcing.

Now, almost 40 years after the crime crackdown, with data to prove that harsh sentencing and full prisons are not effective strategies of keeping crime down, there needs to be transition to a more sustainable method of incarceration. Abolishing private prisons is far from a panacea for the broken prison system, but it is an important first step in affirming that treating human beings as commodities is unethical.

As a state notoriously plagued by high incarceration rates,

Louisiana would be a surprising choice to lead the prison reform movement, but a welcomed one.

With such a large percentage of its population in prison, seemingly minor changes in the way prisons are run could have major ripple effects, from lowering recidivism rates to improving trust in the Loui-

siana court system.

Louisiana’s motto declares “union, justice and confidence,” and as such, all of its citizens deserve the “justice” promised to them.

Cécile Girard is a 19-year-old biology and psychology sophomore from Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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Dealth penalty expensive, lacks value, should be abolished I SAID WHAT I SAID MAYA STEVENSON @MayaSStevenson The death penalty is legal in 29 states, abolished in 21 and under moratoria in four.

Since 2019, 15 prisoners have been executed in five states.

All except one of those executed waited more than a decade to suffer their fate they were sentenced.

With such a long period between when criminals are sentenced and the time they are put to death, one has to wonder about the value of capital punishment. It turns out, its value is almost non-existent.

One of the reasons why the punishment lacks value is because it is insanely expensive compared to sentencing criminals to life in prison. The death penalty is so expensive for a number of reasons, such as legal costs, pre-trial costs, trials and more. Many of these expenses are also present in nondeath penalty cases, but not to

the same extent. Death penalty trials alone can last four times longer than non-capital trials, incurring a myriad of expenses.

Louisiana’s capital punishment system costs taxpayers at least $15.6 million a year, more than a system with life without parole as the maximum sentence, according to a study done by former Chief Judge of Orleans Parish District Court Calvin Johnson and Loyola University Law Professor William Quigley.

The study also found that Louisiana spent more than $200 million on the death penalty system in the last 15 years.

The numbers from this study are believed to be conservative estimates of the actual costs, as costs of prosecution and court were not factored in.

The cost we pay as taxpayers for capital punishment has been estimated to be as high as three times the cost of a nondeath penalty case. I thought the goal was to spend less taxpayer money?

Not only is the death penalty not fiscally beneficial to the state, but researchers have also

found the punishment lacks any of the societal effects many believe it to produce.

The death penalty is thought by many to deter capital offenses in the country. I mean, who wouldn’t be afraid of dying? Except, there’s no evidence to prove that it does. According to a 2012 study by the National Research Council, which reviewed all of the deterrence studies relating to the issue, there was no credible evidence that the death penalty deters murder.

In fact, the southern region of the nation, which accounts for more than 80% of executions, has the highest murder rate. Some states that abolished the death penalty even saw a decrease in capital offenses.

Quite frankly, the death penalty is not accomplishing any of its designed purposes besides ending lives. It doesn’t even help the healing process for survivors of the victims in death row cases.

Death row inmates are entitled to a series of appeals to help limit mistakes within the

process. Some of these appeals can last a decade, drawing out the pain and being a constant reminder for survivors affected by the crimes. With each appeal, the decision of the case hangs in the balance, which doesn’t give survivors the closure they seek.

In comparison, a life sentence in prison is a signed, sealed and delivered outcome.

At the very least, survivors don’t have to deal with the trauma that each stage of the death penalty process brings.

A study by the Marquette Law Review even found that a life sentence in prison, rather than capital punishment for those who harmed their loved ones, led to higher levels of physical, psychological and behavioral health for the families involved.

The biggest problem for most opposers is the verification of death row inmates’ guilt, and rightfully so. Any rational person can admit the American justice system does not treat everyone fairly, not that it was ever designed to do so. Innocent people have been executed, which is terrifying to

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think about. Death is the ultimate punishment, an ending that can never be reopened.

Since the 1970s, over 160 people have been exonerated.

What if their innocence wasn’t found? An innocent person would have died—an outcome no one should support.

The death penalty was created because early civilizations did not have an alternative to ensure the incapacitation of those who committed major crimes. In some places, it was even used as a form of entertainment. Our current society has no need for such an archaic and primitive process.

Sentencing criminals to life in prison without parole is more effective and cost-efficient. The sentence is essentially a sentencing to death but in prison. The death penalty lacks any substantive value, as found by many studies, and should not permitted in the U.S. Maya Stevenson is a 20-yearold English and philosophy junior from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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