Shreveport’s gun violence and incarceration issues go ‘hand in hand,’ residents say

On a friend’s red-and-green-painted porch in the Lakeside neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana, Carl Law is wrangling his two-year-old son, Blaze. Anxious for his dad’s attention, Blaze pulls on his dad’s T-shirt. The toddler’s interruptions burble beneath Law’s voice as he describes his relationship with his own father – one built through jail phones.

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