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Category: Criminal Justice

After America Street, let’s work toward solutions.

by Trashanda Grayes and Arthur Hunter November 6, 2023 Updated November 5, 2023

Jackson Parish holding pre-trial youth in unlicensed juvenile jail

Despite lacking a required DCFS license, Jackson’s detention center is housing kids awaiting adjudication — and collecting roughly $200 a day per kid from surrounding parishes
by Nick Chrastil November 2, 2023 Updated November 2, 2023

‘Another step backwards’: $9.5 million private security contract for Louisiana youth prisons raises eyebrows

OJJ pays $75 per hour to staffing company for guards. Critics say that contractor seems to be “enriching themselves on the backs of Louisiana's teenagers and taxpayers’
by Nick Chrastil October 25, 2023 Updated November 2, 2023

‘No Phase III’ still a battlecry

Even as construction begins, the fight continues. Within the jail, monitors find, conditions are worse, due to the same old chronic issues: short staffing, violence, and shoddy mental-healthcare.
by Nick Chrastil October 11, 2023 Updated October 11, 2023

Sheriff Hutson moves several pre-trial detainees from New Orleans jail to Angola

While the move was largely made to bring down the jail’s population, placing pre-trial defendants in a state prison is “really problematic on a human-being level,” said public defender Alexis Chernow. The move also worries victims, who fear cases could stall if defendants not prepped for court and transported.
by Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl October 6, 2023 Updated October 6, 2023

Calvin Cains’ mother withdraws one lawsuit, but will keep fighting for body-cam

She now plans to file a “civil-rights and wrongful death lawsuit” against JPSO; body-camera footage would likely be turned over in the course of those proceedings.
by Nick Chrastil October 2, 2023 Updated October 3, 2023

We cannot reduce crime and be safe without remaking Tulane and Broad

As the jail population climbs toward its maximum capacity – 1,250 – as set by the City Council, it’s clear that we must take a close look at what happens inside the Criminal District Courthouse.
by Arthur Hunter Jr. October 2, 2023 Updated November 27, 2023

Mother of young man killed by JPSO deputies sues for body-camera video

Mallory Cains believes that the footage will show that deputies wrongfully shot her son, Calvin Cains, without giving him a chance to surrender.
by Marta Jewson September 28, 2023 Updated October 2, 2023

With numbers on the rise, New Orleans jail nears legal population cap

It’s unclear what — if anything — will happen if the cap is reached, but officials say they are looking for ways to reduce the number of people locked up in the troubled facility.
by Nick Chrastil September 20, 2023 Updated September 20, 2023

‘The car never started.’

Calvin Cains III was killed in early June by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies who said they used lethal force to prevent Cains from running them over. But two key witnesses dispute that account, saying that Cains had just gotten into the car and may had not have even turned the key.
by Katy Reckdahl September 15, 2023 Updated September 18, 2023

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