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| Mayor, sheriff fight over reforms and funding at Orleans Parish jail |
| By nola.comy- Naomi Martin |
| Published: 03/21/2014 |
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Orleans Parish Prison inmates continue to suffer excessive violence and shoddy medical and mental-health care caused by severe understaffing, conditions a court-appointed corrections expert called "the definition of mayhem" in testimony Thursday. "Twenty-three-hour lockdown, mayhem, absence of staff to supervise what's going on -- it's the quintessential definition, the English definition of mayhem," said Susan McCampbell, the lead monitor tasked with reporting to a federal judge on the state of the jail. McCampbell's team of monitors also believe the jail urgently needs 151 additional employees to improve conditions, at a cost of at least $2.7 million for 2014 alone. Read More. |
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