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A Prison Fight in New Orleans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A Prison Fight in New Orleans by Elizabeth Renter November 13, 2010 There?s no doubt the New Orleans jail must be replaced. After first floor inmates stood in water and sewage up to their waists and sometimes necks after guards fled and their cells were flooded with water from Hurricane Katrina, damage of both the structural and emotional kind was inevitable. The question isn?t whether or not the city needs a new jail, it?s just how big this new structure should be. With New Orleans the incarceration capital of the country and home to a shady if not completely corrupt local criminal justice system, activists there and around the world are are calling on on the city to build a smaller jail and funnel the extra money into much needed incarceration alternatives and reentry programs instead...continue to full post

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