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Kat Stromquist
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Senior Reporter, WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA)
New Orleans
Beats
Biography
Public-radio reporter for Gulf States Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR and member stations in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. I'm based in New Orleans and cover incarceration and prison issues across the three Gulf states, with some other criminal-justice reporting mixed in. I also have a special interest in stories related to disability rights. I'd love to talk about anything you're working on related to: LWOP, JLWOP, disability issues and the criminal justice system, sentencing practices (especially around fentanyl), prison oversight, jail voting rights, reentry issues and children affected by incarceration. Previously I worked at the statewide Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper and the New Orleans alt-weekly The Gambit.
I don't have much I will not cover.
Content
By Bobbi-Jean Misick, Kat Stromquist Verified| Yahoo Verified Officers with Louisiana State Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement escort a man arrested March 13, 2025, at the Port of Lake Charles. ICE reported 11 arrests of people working at the port who did not have legal status to be in the United States (Photo courtesy of ICE).
By Kat Stromquist Verified| KRVS-FM Verified At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session that began Monday touch on capital punishment, aiming to refine processes amid a press by Louisiana officials to carry out more death sentences. Two bills filed thus far have provisions that concern who can be present when a person on death row is killed. The issue played a prominent role in the case of Jessie Hoffman Jr., whose lawyers argued unsuccessfully for the ability to attend his execution last month.
By Bobbi-Jeanne Misick Verified, Kat Stromquist Verified| Verite Verified Amid calls from President Donald Trump for a nationwide immigration crackdown and an end to so-called “sanctuary” policies, at least two Louisiana law enforcement agencies have recently joined forces with federal immigration authorities, enlisting local officers to identify and detain undocumented immigrants in their custody.
Company Info
WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA)
New Orleans, United States