Lawyers say that in spite of a legal agreement, Cantrell still fails to consider defendants' ability to pay. In a second motion, they are asking for him to stop setting cash bail altogether.
The ordinance also creates an inmate cap of 1,250, replacing the 1,438 bed cap.
Monitors have found department in compliance with at least 11 of 18 major consent decree sections.
A public defender sued for crime camera location records after the city claimed they were too sensitive for public release.
The amendment would allow the continued use of the facility’s Temporary Detention Center for housing certain inmates. It will require one more vote from the council.
A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.
Last month, District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said that his office was sending almost all domestic violence charges to Municipal Court, rather than state court.
A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.
A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.
The city and the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office are implementing short- and long-term plans for housing mentally ill inmates, but critics say jail is no place to treat mental illness.
