I’ve been following a troubling pattern in our local justice system, and I think Baton Rouge residents deserve to know about it.
Imagine sitting in jail for months — recovering from surgery, in pain, cut off from your medication — only to learn later that you’d already served more time than the law allows for the charge against you.
Imagine being told you can go home, but only if you pay money to someone who isn’t even the person a protective order was meant to protect…