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Jillian Kramer

@jilliankramer

Reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer // Former reporter at The Times-Picayune and freelance journalist for the New York Times, National Geographic, and more

 New Orleans, LA
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🥇 First Place: Jillian Kramer (@jilliankramer) and Jeff Adelson (@jadelson) of The Times-Picayune / The Advocate for "Longing for Justice," a look at how New Orleans takes longer than almost any other U.S. jurisdiction to bring murder cases to trial. nola.com/longing_for_justice…
Longing For Justice

Longing For Justice

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Longing for Justice: in print today in @NOLAnews. Read it here: nola.cms.us-corp-qa-4.vip.tn…
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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! nola.com/interactive/murder-…
Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

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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Incredible work by @jilliankramer & @jadelson. Their deep dive shows Orleans Parish Criminal Court takes nearly 3 years to resolve murder cases, triple the target. 39 dragged on for over 6 years. Moving, poignant photos by @SophiaGermer 🔗 nola.com/interactive/murder-…
Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

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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Our latest @NOLAnews project from @jilliankramer and @jadelson. Murder cases in New Orleans move through court at a slower pace than nearly anywhere else. Families of victims and the accused are trapped in a never-ending cycle of grief. Why is it this way? nola.com/interactive/murder-…
Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

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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Murder cases in New Orleans are more likely to drag for 5+ years than be resolved within 1 year. One of the country's deadliest cities is also among the slowest in closing its homicides. By @jilliankramer: nola.com/interactive/murder-…
Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

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. nola.com/news/business/louis…
Pushed to the breaking point, coastal Louisiana fears insurance rates are killing their towns

Pushed to the breaking point, coastal Louisiana fears insurance rates are killing their towns

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. nola.com/news/politics/why-n…

A city falling apart: Why New Orleans fails to stay dry, functional despite billions in funding

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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James Finn@rjamesfinn11 Jan 2024
A Baton Rouge judge quashed a murder indictment because the state didn't follow a law letting people with felonies on juries. @jilliankramer and I reported last year on how a number of Louisiana courts weren’t following this law theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/… via @theadvocatebr – at Baton Rouge, LA
Judge quashes murder indictment, says state didn't adhere to law allowing felons on juries

Judge quashes murder indictment, says state didn't adhere to law allowing felons on juries

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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Today we unveil "For Dear Life," my deep dive for @NOLAnews/@theadvocatebr into why Louisiana's infant mortality rates are among the highest in the developed world, and the families carrying these tragedies. Here's our first story: nola.com/news/healthcare_hos…

Louisiana has an infant mortality crisis. Solving it would save hundreds of babies.

MONROE — With each sweep of the ultrasound wand across Amber Davis’s protruding belly, her diagnosis grew more dire.

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Thanks @roywoodjr! Check out @LMattersNews for a free weekly roundup of the country's best local investigative reporting.
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New: The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on a lawsuit that aims to remove youth from Angola, saying the facility is seriously harmful and potentially unconstitutional if descriptions of dangerous living conditions and lengthy isolation are true. theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
Feds weigh in on Louisiana keeping teens at Angola, fear 'serious and irreparable harm'

Feds weigh in on Louisiana keeping teens at Angola, fear 'serious and irreparable harm'

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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Thanks to @Louisiana_Press for awarding my and @lea_skene's story on ankle monitors the first place news story award in the LPA's annual competition. Read the story here: theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
Inside Louisiana's 'wild west' ankle monitor system: A brutal murder, no standards or oversight

Inside Louisiana's 'wild west' ankle monitor system: A brutal murder, no standards or oversight

Long before the murder-suicide, Van Hopkins had been warned.

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“I would not dare to keep my dog in these conditions for fear of my dog dying,” a doctor wrote in the emergency filing. “And Louisiana law requires air conditioning in all juvenile detention centers.” theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
Saying they're held alone in sweltering heat, teens seek emergency release from Angola lockup

Saying they're held alone in sweltering heat, teens seek emergency release from Angola lockup

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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Thanks to Green Eyeshade Awards (the southern regional @spj_tweets contest) for recognizing my, @aegallo and @PaulCobler’s work for @theadvocatebr covering Baton Rouge’s violence-stricken motels. Read the winning story here theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/…
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NOPD is using an obscure offense that most states have wiped from their statutes to ramp up gun arrests, @jadelson & @jilliankramer report. More than 90% arrested were Black. The DA has yet to get a conviction in 7 of 10 cases. nola.com/news/crime_police/p…

Police are arresting more people on minor weapons offenses, but the arrests rarely lead to jail time

Data shows that more than 90% of those arrested in the discretionary stops are Black.

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“Dignity is not just for people who are innocent. And to strap a person down — to render them completely defenseless — and kill them, what kind of dignity is in that death? We don't have to do this be safe.” nola.com/news/politics/siste…
Sister Helen Prejean: Granting clemency to death row inmates is "what we have to do"

Sister Helen Prejean: Granting clemency to death row inmates is "what we have to do"

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. nola.com/news/politics/siste…
Sister Helen Prejean: Granting clemency to death row inmates is "what we have to do"

Sister Helen Prejean: Granting clemency to death row inmates is "what we have to do"

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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Almost everyone on Louisiana's death row has asked Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare their lives — a historic request in the state. Incredible work breaking this story by my colleague @rjamesfinn. nola.com/news/politics/most-…
Almost all Louisiana death row prisoners ask John Bel Edwards to spare their lives

Almost all Louisiana death row prisoners ask John Bel Edwards to spare their lives

Nearly all of the 57 people on Louisiana's death row have asked Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare their lives, a historic request made after Edwards broke his silence on

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Who's on Louisiana's death row? You can find out here. nola.com/news/politics/these…
Who is on death row in Louisiana? Here are the 57 names and their history.

Who is on death row in Louisiana? Here are the 57 names and their history.

Almost all Louisiana death row inmates asked Governor John Bel Edwards to spare their lives on Tuesday morning.

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And follow all @NOLAnews on this developing story here: nola.com/news/politics/louis…
Death penalty in Louisiana

Death penalty in Louisiana

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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