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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]
19 Mar 2015, 8:05 am by Maureen Johnston
Maryland violations by the district attorney in Orleans Parish. [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]
5 Sep 2011, 8:18 am by Rebecca McCray, Center for Justice
A 2006 ACLU report on the horrific conditions endured by inmates at Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina was referenced in many blog posts this weekend responding to the revelation that New York City has no emergency evacuation plan for the more than 12,000 people at Rikers Island. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 6:24 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  John Simerman reports for the New Orleans Advocate:A state prisoner from New Orleans who recently landed at the center of national legal debate about mandatory life sentences for youthful offenders won his freedom Thursday after 31 years in prison.Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro's office agreed to vacate his murder conviction.I think that is a proper disposition. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 6:58 pm
Orleans Parish juries haven't returned a death sentence in twelve years, despite New Orleans' reputation as the nation's murder capital. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 7:52 pm by Jeralyn
Instead, the evidence demonstrated that misperception and disregard of Brady’s disclosure requirements were pervasive in Orleans Parish. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 8:10 am by Steve Hall
And: The prosecutors involved in my two cases, from the office of the Orleans Parish district attorney, Harry Connick Sr., helped to cover up 10 separate pieces of evidence. [read post]
11 Jan 2010, 12:51 pm by Steve Hall
Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Orleans Parish juries have condemned 38 defendants to death. [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 5:01 am by Unknown
Interestingly, the complaint alleges that in October of 2019, the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans permanently enjoyed the owner from working as a tax return preparer in Louisiana. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 11:14 pm
Pou and haul her into Orleans Parish Prison on the evening of July 17, 2006, where she was booked on four counts of second-degree murder. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 11:05 am by Alex Vitrak
  In an excellent piece, Karen Houppert describes the human costs of Orleans Parish’s failure to provide timely representation to its poorest citizens. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 2:36 pm by The Editors
   The Orleans Parish Prison has been under scrutiny as well, with the DOJ issuing a scathing findings letter in 2009 about unconstitutional conditions of confinement. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 10:22 am by Steven Cohen
Gusman – United States District Court – Eastern District of Louisiana – February 10th and February 12th, 2016 – This case involves a civil rights action against numerous employees at the Orleans Parish Prison. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 7:43 pm
Thompson was then re-tried by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, and was acquitted. ----- It's a damn shame that this can happen - and I'm glad that Mr. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 8:50 pm
In the case of Tanner Hills of Louisiana, according to court records, (.pdf) an MPAA expert concluded that the 3,557 bootleg DVDs seized from the defendant's Jefferson Parish apartment outside New Orleans was valued at $67,583. [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]