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26 Aug 2010, 12:57 pm by Jeralyn
Orleans Parish - South White Street Jail (Louisiana), a female-only facility, recorded an inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization rate of 7.5%, which was 5 times the average rate among jails nationwide. [read post]
12 May 2012, 6:38 pm by ebcarpenter
— New Orleans Premiere Criminal Defense Attorney   Battery Attorney New Orleans Serving Clients in Orleans Parish, St. [read post]
14 Sep 2009, 11:38 pm
"We all kept thinking about what happened to the prisoners in Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricane Katrina. [read post]
4 May 2017, 4:17 am by SHG
“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]
31 Jan 2008, 5:19 am
A prominent judge says the parish jail has become a de-facto replacement for closed psychiatric wards, and the sheriff who runs the prison agrees. 'This is a dangerous situation,' said Judge Arthur Hunter Jr., a former police officer who now presides over a special court dealing with mentally ill nonviolent people. 'Citizens need to know how dangerous it is. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 6:01 am by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
A 2013 survey estimated that 700,000 veterans (including a sizeable percentage from the Vietnam era) are incarcerated in prisons and jails. [read post]
20 May 2012, 7:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The private prisons and their Louisiana county partners loved the set up, though it was costing Harris County a small fortune:"We didn't have any problems," said LaSalle Warden Jeff Windham, a former chief deputy of the LaSalle Parish Sheriff's Office. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 7:29 am by Jeralyn
Most of those in the Orleans Parish Prison were there for minor offenses like unpaid fines and jaywalking. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 2:40 pm by Suzanne Ito
More specifically, lawyers from the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office have repeatedly been found to withhold evidence from cases that would have exonerated men who instead ended up on death row. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 8:00 am by Ari Rosmarin
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]
31 Aug 2012, 11:05 am by Alex Vitrak
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]
7 May 2017, 4:28 am by SHG
” The Orleans Parish District Attorney, Leon Cannizzaro, is a piece of work on many levels. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 8:10 am by Steve Hall
I just want to know why the prosecutors who hid evidence, sent me to prison for something I didn’t do and nearly had me killed are not in jail themselves. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 9:04 pm
She also gained a local reputation as a saint for tending to wounded soldiers during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, for nursing the victims of yellow fever epidemics, and for providing food and amulets to the prisoners on death row and in parish jail. [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 9:37 am by Katherine Pompilio
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 Feb 2012, 2:25 pm by Tanya Greene, ACLU
’s Orleans Parish (Louisiana) District Attorney’s Office sent to death row by hiding evidence that would have proven his innocence. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 9:29 am
” “You can’t keep everything,” said Arthur Morrell, Orleans Parish clerk of Criminal Court. [read post]