Stories Related to Lawsuit Over Decades Of Illegal Arrests In Evangeline Parish Faces Roadblock

The Associated Press, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Tue, 11/21/2017 - 12:16pm

A federal investigation revealed last year that authorities in a rural Louisiana parish routinely used illegal "investigative holds."

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