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20 Jan 2023, 11:28 am
He was held pre-trial in the Orleans Parish Jail until 2011 when he was tried for capital murder, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 9:37 am
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Vanessa Fano, sister of Jonathan Fano who died in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana; Belinda L. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 11:29 am
As flood waters rose, deputies at the Orleans Parish Prison abandoned their posts and left hundreds of people in their cells, some standing in sewage-tainted water up to their chests in the dark, powerless jail. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 8:00 am
This victory built off of our lawsuit in 2017 challenging Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s use of fraudulent subpoenas to jail witnesses of crimes. [read post]
30 Aug 2019, 12:30 pm
Separate panels both unanimously ruled that criminal court judges in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, have an unconstitutional conflict of interest when they collect fines and fees and issue arrest warrants if defendants don't pay up. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 2:00 pm
More than 10 years ago, as Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, local officials abandoned prisoners, and some staff, in the Orleans Parish Prison with no electricity and chest-high floodwaters. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 11:27 am
Alexander was released from the Jefferson Parish jail today. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 7:45 am
But because of Cannizzaro’s illegal policies, she spent five traumatic days in the Orleans Parish Prison. [read post]
7 May 2017, 4:28 am
” The Orleans Parish District Attorney, Leon Cannizzaro, is a piece of work on many levels. [read post]
4 May 2017, 4:17 am
“One Taryn Blume late of the parish of Orleans, between the first day of January in the year of our Lord, two thousand and fourteen, and the first day of April in the year of our lord, two thousand and fourteen in the parish of Orleans, did impersonate a peace officer or assumed, without authority, any uniform or badge by which a peace officer is lawfully distinguished …” the indictment read. [read post]
17 May 2016, 10:46 am
But in the real world, there isn’t enough money for public defense in Orleans Parish, so that Derwyn Bunton has had to refuse to defend human beings, sitting in jail, charged with crimes. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 1:01 am
” A mob some 20,000 people formed in front of Orleans Parish Prison on this day in history. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 9:58 am
State law allows fines and jail time on a first offense and up to eight years in prison for a fourth conviction. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 6:01 am
A 2013 survey estimated that 700,000 veterans (including a sizeable percentage from the Vietnam era) are incarcerated in prisons and jails. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 5:00 am
The Orleans Parish (La.) [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 6:44 pm
’Wallace was never told that the day before he died a grand jury in West Feliciana Parish, north of Baton Rouge, had re-indicted him in the prison guard’s death. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 12:36 pm
"... inmates in the Orleans Parish Prison using drugs, drinking beer and showing off a loaded pistol. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 10:07 am
Earlier this year, the Orleans Parish Defenders Office (OPD), which represents more than 80 percent of criminal defendants in Orleans Parish and handled 30,000 cases in 2011, faced a particularly severe fiscal crisis. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 11:05 am
California Pretrial Bill Could Relieve Crowded Jails As California shifts more of its prisoners to county jails, it must be careful not to solve one overcrowding problem by creating another. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 7:29 am
Most of those in the Orleans Parish Prison were there for minor offenses like unpaid fines and jaywalking. [read post]
