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The New Orleans City Council is set to decide Thursday whether to approve an unnecessary expansion of Orleans Parish Prison. At a time crushing deficits and budget cuts, Sheriff Marlin Gusman is asking the City to expand the largest per-capita jail in America: Orleans Parish Prison. America ha
The ACLU of Louisiana calls on the New Orleans City Council to reject Sheriff Marlin Gusman's plan to expand Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) to 5,832 beds, large enough for 1 bed for every 60 residents. OPP, currently being investigated by the U.S.
In response to reports of widespread interference with the right to observe and record police activity in New Orleans, today the ACLU of Louisiana released a report outlining the problem and calling on the New Orleans Police Department to conduct training in First Amendment rights.
Today the ACLU of Louisiana urges the City of Thibodaux to cease enforcement of a 1992 ordinance prohibiting political signs on private property more than 120 days before an election.
Because of ACLU of Louisiana litigation, the Louisiana Department of Corrections ("DOC") has settled a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of Ernest Billizone, a prisoner punished for simple written complaints about his treatment. Mr.
Seeking the three goals of improving mental health, reducing the prison population, and ensuring due process of law, the Advocacy Center and an individual plaintiff today sued the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, its Secretary, and two administrators to declare two Louisiana statutes