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29 Aug 2007, 2:48 pm
On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the ACLU published Broken Borders: Two Years After Katrina, a report that focuses on the horrifying conditions and scary lack of planning at the Orleans Parish Prison, where after the levees broke, prisoners were left for days, still locked up, in chest-deep water and no help in sight. [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]
30 May 2012, 5:45 pm
Louisiana Is The World’s Prison Capital Criminal Defense Attorney New Orleans Elizabeth B. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:07 am
There are dozens of district attorneys on the ballot across Louisiana this year — including in Orleans Parish, where District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro is stepping down after 12 years of pushing ineffective “tough on crime” policies. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 9:58 am
It is important to note that these changes in marijuana laws would only affect Orleans Parish. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 9:30 am
The Jefferson Parish jury rejected James’ innocence argument and convicted him of aggravated rape, which carries mandatory life in prison. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 2:45 am
This case gives the Court another opportunity to weigh in on prosecutorial misconduct out of the District Attorney's office in Orleans Parish. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 12:46 pm
He was released from Angola prison this morning. [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 12:48 pm
ABA Files Amicus Demanding Disclosure of Exculpatory Evidence Regardless of Materiality, Boarder than Brady By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair The Orleans Parish and Williamson County district attorney offices have something in common: both have a disturbing history of withholding exculpatory information that resulted in innocent men being sent to prison (or death row) for long periods of time (here, here and here). [read post]
21 May 2012, 7:06 am
They serve their time or die in prison. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:30 am
Third, and most surprising, Orleans Parish jurors, particularly during the 1920s, sent white killers to the gallows at a higher rate than African American killers. [read post]
7 Oct 2019, 8:41 am
He was 17 years old, and as he was arrested three weeks before Hurricane Katrina, he suffered enormously in the Orleans Parish Prison, along with other inmates. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 9:41 pm
In Orleans Parish, about 300 municipal prisoners were simply delivered out of bondage. [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]
27 Aug 2012, 6:07 pm
The cops arrested him and his cousin and took them to the Orleans Parish Prison. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 10:07 am
” The three men were wrongfully convicted by a Jefferson Parish jury in 1993 and sentenced to mandatory life sentences in prison. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:12 pm
Earlier coverage of the Orleans Parish District Attorney's office begins at the link. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 3:12 pm
Smith’s conviction of five murders in New Orleans in 1995 led to a sentence of life in prison without a chance for parole. [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]
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]
