Monitors tasked with overseeing the New Orleans jail and tracking its compliance with the long-running federal consent decree said staff falsified suicide-watch documentation, rubber-stamped investigations to justify uses of force, and that the facility is dangerously understaffed.
A Sheriff's Office committee selected a company in private, but the agency won't say who it is.
The current facility is in terrible condition, and inmates are not well supervised. The solutions are expensive.
The figure was disclosed in a recent court filing, but not in a City Council committee meeting.
$5 million a year could be used to pay for jail costs if voters approve the change.
His office has missed deadlines for 62 of 65 requirements outlined in court documents.
Watch live here at 8 p.m. Thursday after WYES broadcasts a documentary examining the consent decrees.
Sheriff Marlin Gusman said vulnerable inmates are not being placed with violent offenders.
That's not much more than was allocated for the last three months of 2013.
