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| Falling Prison Population May Not Be Enough |
| By nola.com |
| Published: 02/14/2011 |
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Over a recent six-month period, thanks mainly to a series of criminal-justice reforms, the number of local inmates in the Orleans Parish jail fell by more than a quarter. But even at its lowest level -- 1,744 prisoners -- the population isn't yet small enough to fit in the new 1,438-bed jail recommended by a mayoral task force and approved earlier this month by the City Council. And until the jail population stabilizes below 1,438, there still is a chance that Sheriff Marlin Gusman might need to expand beyond the single, stand-alone building envisioned by the council. Gusman has said that he doesn't believe that the series of criminal-justice reforms in New Orleans will reduce population fast enough for the jail to be a stand-alone facility. Read More. |
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