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Author: Matt Davis

True to word, Gusman yanking deputies from courthouse

October 25, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman partially will follow through Tuesday morning on his threat to pull some security from the Criminal District Court building unless the city pays him an extra $500,000.

Temporary beds will expand jail population after all

October 19, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
Sheriff Marlin Gusman said Tuesday that his 400 new temporary jail beds will add to the total number of inmates in his custody, despite what he told The Lens and Fox8 News last month.

Gusman: I’ve always advocated for smaller jail

October 15, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
Sheriff Marlin Gusman committed to build a smaller jail complex today if data analysis by Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s new working group supports one.

Initial jail plan envisioned 8,000 inmates by 2020

October 15, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
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.

Sheriff ordered to pay $650,000 to tourists who were wrongly imprisoned

October 14, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019
A jury has awarded $649,300 to two Ohio men who spent almost six weeks in custody after Katrina, despite never being charged with a crime.

Sheriff: Not my job to release uncharged Katrina inmates

October 14, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Never-charged inmates describe “putrid” Katrina jail

October 12, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Once again, sheriff tells city to pay up or lose security

October 8, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Committee to reconsider downgrading some crimes

October 6, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

Council to consider alternatives to jailing municipal defendants

October 5, 2010 Updated November 7, 2019

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