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4 Feb 2011, 12:12 pm
The city jail, Orleans Parish Prison (OPP), holds nearly 3,200 prisoners and remains the largest per-capita jail in the nation. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 8:50 am
"We moved to New Orleans, and he went someplace else," [name withheld] says. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 12:47 pm
A former chief judge in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court once wondered: “[H]ow can you describe a system where the City pays $23 a day to the Sheriff to house someone in the Jail for 30 days to collect $100 as anything other than crazy? [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 12:57 pm
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]
14 Jun 2010, 1:41 pm
Treme lawyer Toni Bernette (based on real-life lawyer Mary Howell, a long-time ACLU friend and collaborator) tries to navigate the dysfunctional prison and court system to locate Daymo, a man wrongly arrested, stuck in Orleans Parish Prison when it flooded and then lost by authorities during the evacuation of prisoners to a highway overpass. [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]
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]
14 Sep 2008, 5:28 pm
Spring 2006 When Hurricane Katrina hit, there was no evacuation plan for the 7,000 prisoners in Orleans Parish Prison, the New Orleans city jail, generally known as OPP, or the approximate 1,500 prisoners in nearby jails. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 9:41 pm
In Orleans Parish, about 300 municipal prisoners were simply delivered out of bondage. [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]
11 Nov 2007, 9:29 am
” “You can’t keep everything,” said Arthur Morrell, Orleans Parish clerk of Criminal Court. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 6:29 am
With the city's prison damaged by flooding, he was taken to a makeshift jail at the Greyhound bus station, then transferred to a correctional facility about 70 miles away, and later to a prison in southwest Louisiana.That's where Parra-Sanchez sat for more than a year — never seeing a lawyer or setting foot in a courtroom. [read post]
