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Orleans prison in bad shape, feds say. Fiscal, staff, security problems 'daunting'

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Orleans prison in bad shape, feds say Fiscal, staff, security problems 'daunting' Saturday, April 18, 2009 By Bruce Nolan Staff writer Orleans Parish Prison faces a huge burden of financial, staffing, security and other problems -- the worst of them that the city, state and federal governments are not paying the full cost of housing their prisoners, according to federal consultants who visited the prison last year. "Nearly three years (after Hurricane Katrina) it is difficult to adequately describe the scope and depth of the problems still confronting the sheriff's office as they attempt to rebuild the Orleans Parish jail system," reported two consultants from the National Institute of Corrections. The agency is an arm of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that provides technical assistance to wardens across the country...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).