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Two articles on the Proposed New Orleans Jail- One from the NY Times and one from the The Times-Picayune

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sheriff Wants a Big Jail in New Orleans, but City Balks By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON New York Times- February 15, 2011 NEW ORLEANS ? Even in the context of Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate in the United States, which in turn has the highest incarceration rate in the world, the numbers stand out. This city, by any measure, puts a lot of people in jail. So when the sheriff proposed a large new jail complex, it came as no surprise. The surprise was that the city pushed back. It has been said so often as to become hackneyed, but the destruction from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding has allowed New Orleans to reconsider nearly everything. Not all the proposed changes have been universally welcomed, but by wide agreement, the targets of reform have been ripe...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).