Sheriff Marlin Gusman committed to build a smaller jail complex today if data analysis by Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s new working group supports one.
Daily Archives: October 15, 2010
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Mayor wants to create office for citizen-engagement
Citizen engagement got its own line in the 2011 budget brought before the City Council today by Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Among the items funded within the $126 million proposed budget for the Mayor’s Office is $483,950 for the creation of an Office of Neighborhood and Citizen Engagement. If funded, the office would be the city’s […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Initial jail plan envisioned 8,000 inmates by 2020
Despite publicly committing to a “smaller, safer jail” in recent weeks, Sheriff Marlin Gusman sent architects a plan calling for 8,000 beds in his complex by 2020.
Posted inSchools
Struggling charter high school again booted from its home
By January, Priestly School of Architecture and Construction seniors Tamara Handy and Jason Lang will have attended classes at three campuses in four years, moving with the peripatetic New Orleans charter high school.