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| Chicago jail official named top corrections deputy at Orleans Parish Prison |
| By theneworleansadvocate.com- Jim Mustian |
| Published: 04/22/2015 |
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Sheriff Marlin Gusman has tapped a longtime jail administrator in Chicago to lead the troubled Orleans Parish Prison, looking outside the Sheriff’s Office for a critical hire after his previous chief corrections deputy left the job on sour terms. Carmen DeSadier, a veteran of the Cook County Department of Corrections, was selected from a half-dozen applicants in what Gusman described as a nationwide search. She begins her new job May 4. DeSadier, 55, will be tasked with steering the Sheriff’s Office into compliance with a court-ordered plan to reform the jail. Implementing the federally monitored agreement has been hobbled, in many respects, by a lack of staffing and inadequate funding. For months, Gusman has been locked in a bitter dispute with Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration — which under state law must pay for inmates’ care — over how much money is needed to satisfy the sweeping terms of the federal consent decree. The decree, which resulted from a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates, calls for an overhaul of Sheriff’s Office policies and a series of measures aimed at reducing jailhouse violence. Filling DeSadier’s position of chief of corrections is mandated by the decree. Read More. |
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