Parole Project Executive Director Andrew Hundley was the guest speaker at the Press Club of Baton Rouge’s October 25 meeting.
Hundley discussed our organization’s work on behalf of persons who have served extreme sentences, including our newest project, the Forgotten Men Initiative, identifying and working for the release of Louisiana’s longest serving incarcerated men and women.
One sunny spring morning, Ronald Olivier is chatting with a reporter on a sidewalk in downtown Baton Rouge. Some years back, Olivier wouldn’t have been part of this cityscape. He was still imprisoned at Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly called Angola, where he became a grownup.
After 23 years in prison, Johnny chooses to live his life by one definitive quote: “How we walk with the broken is far more important than how we sit with the great.”
During the summer of her freshman year at Louisiana State University, Cierra de la Garza accepted an internship with a private law firm in Brooklyn, working for a seasoned trial attorney.