 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer At a handful of Baton Rouge motels, the bodies are piling up. Between drug overdoses and homicides, law enforcement leaders say these businesses are near the epicenter of some our city's most tragic trends. Many of those hotels are part of national chains, which has experts and local leaders wondering: Why hasn't more been done to make these hotels safer? Here's our deep investigation into the problems and unaddressed issues.
Louisiana's youth prison system is in crisis. When state leaders announced a controversial plan to house some juveniles on the grounds of Angola, they said it was a last-ditch effort precipitated by violence in existing prisons. We obtained incident reports that paint a picture of the facilities where that violence was most intense. Here's a look inside the chaos that helped throw the system into turmoil.
When an insurance company goes bankrupt in Louisiana, there's supposed to be a backstop that protects policyholders. But an unprecedented number of companies have folded in the past year under the strain of back-to-back monster hurricanes. That's putting enormous pressure on the state's bailout fund. Here's why that's a big problem. | 
