Sheriff ordered to pay $650,000 to tourists who were wrongly imprisoned
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.
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Criminal Justice
Asking why and how, and what needs to be done.
Sheriff: Not my job to release uncharged Katrina inmates
Never-charged inmates describe “putrid” Katrina jail
Once again, sheriff tells city to pay up or lose security
Committee to reconsider downgrading some crimes
Council to consider alternatives to jailing municipal defendants
New Orleans courts unfair to poor defendants, reports say
Sheriff headed to court without budget increase
Sheriff Marlin Gusman is threatening to take the city to court unless it pays him 28 percent more money than last year to house New Orleans inmates.
Temporary jail cells costing more than $11 million to build
Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s temporary jail will cost over $11 million, The Lens has learned.
Some support temporary jail; others want work stopped
Sheriff Marlin Gusman’s decision to move ahead with construction of 400 temporary jail beds before a working group meets to examine the jail expansion has divided the group and drawn criticism from City Council President Arnie Fielkow.
