Initial jail plan envisioned 8,000 inmates by 2020
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.
Category: Criminal Justice
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.
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.
