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New Orleans Jail Conditions Found Unconstitutional
Loaded on March 15, 2010
by Jimmy Franks
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2010, page 30
In June, August and November 2008, the Orleans Parish Prison (OPP) in New Orleans, Louisiana was the target of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation conducted by the agency’s Civil Rights Division.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Jail Misconduct,
Totality of Conditions,
Failure to Protect (General),
Eighth Amendment,
Ventilation,
Exposure to Cold,
Toilets,
Plumbing,
Sanitation,
Jail Specific,
Vermin,
Exposure to Heat,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Louisiana.
Under the auspices of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997, federal investigators ...
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