Title
Ins & Outs: The St. Tammany Judicial System
Files
Description
April Curran tells her story of growing up in Mandeville, Louisiana and how she and her late sister, Joanna Curran, navigated the juvenile justice system. Curran describes her teenage years and how she and her circle of friends began selling and using opioids. Both Curran and her sister were arrested and pressed with drug charges at a young age, leading to harrowing and sometimes abusive interactions with the criminal justice system. Curran explains the circumstances of her sister’s overdose and how her family coped with this tragic loss. Drawing from these experiences, Curran analyzes the sociopolitical factors contributing to the opioid crisis and the dysfunction of the criminal justice system in Saint Tammany Parish.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publisher
Neighborhood Story Project
City
New Orleans
Keywords
Criminal Justice; Class; Race; Opioid; Heroin; Drug use; Political Corruption; Grief; Naloxone; Drug War
Location
New Orleans, Louisiana; Greenville, South Carolina
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Curran, April, "Ins & Outs: The St. Tammany Judicial System" (2017). 7.Safety. 2.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/safety/2
Comments
The ethnographies in Guide to South Louisiana were created by students in Rachel Breunlin’s “Storytelling and Culture” course for the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Orleans in the Spring of 2017.