Angola prisoner Bobby Sneed sued the state parole board after it rescinded his release order, charging that the board and its director ignored procedure and law to retaliate against him for going public with his case.
The city has been ordered to move forward with construction of the facility, but that will require the City Council’s approval.
The City Council is poised to vote on a resolution signaling support for a retrofit of the current jail, rather than the controversial Phase III building.
PANO is asking the city’s Civil Service Commission to open an investigation into PIB.
A proposed law would give "prospective pardons" to anyone cited for marijuana possession under city law.
Two years after the legislature passed a law requiring DA’s offices to submit annual data on the use of material witness warrants, the reports only started coming in last week.
GEO Group, the private prison corporation that runs the facility, denied the allegations.
The council meeting follows the recent killing of a 7th Ward woman. The suspect in the killing had been ordered to be on an electronic monitor.
The suit alleges that the officers were racially profiling the group when they stopped them.
