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Major Decision Looms for New Orleans' City Council on Prison Faci

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Major Decision Looms for New Orleans' City Council on Prison Facility Monday, 31 January 2011 By Seth DiStefano, Special to the NNPA from thefendersonline.com ? It?s not often that building a new prison might represent a watershed moment in criminal justice reform. But in New Orleans, Louisiana, that?s exactly what is happening. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the damage to the Orleans Parish Prison severely curtailed the ability of local authorities to maintain levels of incarceration that, until the storm hit, were the highest per capita in the country. For a city of approximately 465,000, the pre-storm prison capacity of 7,200 enabled one of the most dysfunctional and unfair criminal justice systems in the nation. Following the destruction of Katrina, however, local governments had to build a correctional facility...continue to full post

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