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New Orleans: Demoliton begins on jail destroyed during Hurricane Katrina

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The Justice Facilities Master Plan released last September called for the Sheriff's Office to get back to its pre-Katrina size of more than 6,000 beds by 2015. One part of the plan envisioned as many as 8,000 beds, up considerably from the current 2,600 beds. But Gusman said that is not his intention. "We don't want to have a bigger jail," Gusman said. The Sheriff's Office currently plans to mothball the much-criticized House of Detention, which holds more than 800 inmates in sometimes cramped quarters, once the new jail building is finished, said Renee Lapeyrolerie, a spokeswoman for the agency. That plan is conditioned on the city finishing work at Old Parish Prison, a jail building right behind Criminal District Court, she said. The planning for the new jail still has some work, Lapeyrolerie said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).