| By DREW BROACH | Deputy metro editor |
UNFULFILLED PROMISE: In 2003, Louisiana leaders pledged to transform the state's notoriously brutal juvenile justice system into one that would rehabilitate rather than punish. Now almost 20 years later, a deepening crisis in the youth prisons shows Louisiana has not exorcised the problems that a generation of leaders promised to fix. DEATH OF A FREE MAN: Albert Woodfox, whose 45-year incarceration at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola - most of it in solitary confinement - made him a symbol for prison reformers around the country, died Thursday at Ochsner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans of complications from COVID-19. He was 75, and had been released from prison in 2016. AU REVOIR, ART: The stark, 1,500-pound serpentine sculpture that has stood for six months at the former Lee Circle in New Orleans was removed Thursday. Here’s how it was received, and why it is leaving. Thanks for starting your Friday with Morning Headlines. You can keep up with the latest news all day on NOLA.com. D.B. | 