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| Prison guards, inmate detail brutality inside jail |
| By neworleanscitybusiness.com - Richard A. Webster |
| Published: 11/18/2011 |
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Jelpi Picou got his first real taste of what life was going to be like in Orleans Parish Prison when he spent the first three weeks of a yearlong sentence last year in the House of Detention. “Everyone was smoking crack,” Picou said. There was a constant stream of drugs and the guards didn’t do anything to stop it because they were the suppliers, he said. Picou learned early on that he couldn’t trust the correctional officers to ensure his safety or impose order. Guards rarely patrolled the House of Detention, one of several buildings comprising the Orleans Parish Prison complex, and when they did they verbally abused the inmates “for sport,” he said. “They demean people, they humiliate them, they try to emasculate people,” Picou said. “They are unprofessional and inhumane, from the top to the bottom.” The constant verbal abuse stoked anger among the inmate population and increased the threat of violence. Unable to lash back at the guards, the inmates unleashed their rage on their fellow prisoners, targeting the weakest. Read More. |
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