Nie’John Woods still remembers the day his family changed forever.
In the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans in 2005, the Woods family was just struggling to survive when another tragedy struck. Nie’John watched his mother break down in tears as she knelt over his unresponsive baby brother, after feeding her child, desperately pumping the infant’s chest and breathing into his tiny body, trying to bring him back to life.
Nearly two decades later, he watched his mother break down again as a Louisianaparole board denied her request for release from prison…