Monday’s hearing was supposed to be the first step to determine who would pay for jail reforms.
Tag: Orleans Parish jail consent decree
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Live blog: Gusman’s budget under scrutiny at OPP consent decree hearing
Now that a judge has ruled that jail conditions are unconstitutional, the question is how to pay for it.
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Angry sheriff takes the stand, later accuses mayor of ‘Archie Bunker’ tactics
Gusman says he signed the consent decree after the city refused his 2013 request for an extra $15 million.
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Schizophrenic inmate tells court about jail violence; Gusman testifies Thursday
Deputy mayor and judge clash over whether the city was included in consent decree negotiations.
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Guns, drugs, gambling, violence: Video shows out-of-control Orleans prison
Jail security is a study in “total dysfunction,” testified expert witness Manuel Romero.
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Continuing live blog: Consent decree hearing on Orleans Parish Prison
On Wednesday, testimony concerned the city’s involvement in the negotiations over the consent decree and conditions in the mental health unit. Sheriff Marlin Gusman will testify Thursday morning.
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Sheriff: Landrieu’s gloom-and-doom consent decree figures are inflated
Gusman disputes $22 million-a-year for five years, cited by mayor.
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‘Emergency’ meeting on jail reform raises questions about notification
Mayor Landrieu will paint a grim picture of financial impacts if city is forced to cover costs of the federal consent decree.
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Agreement reached on consent decree to reform Orleans jail
The U.S. Department of Justice today released a much-anticipated, proposed consent decree to settle a lawsuit with the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office over unconstitutional jail conditions identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Department of Justice. The civil rights group sued Sheriff Marlin Gusman in April over practices and conditions at the jail. […]
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Impasse on jail decree: judge orders two trials, months away
Faced with a so far intractable, $14 million divide between Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration and Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman, U.S. Judge Lance Africk today ordered that two trials be held to determine, first, whether conditions at Orleans Parish jail are unconstitutional – and, if so, then who should pay to bring them into compliance. […]