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Plaquemines Parish Jail Grand-Opening Faces Shuttered Wasteful Cells

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the 800 plus bed Plaquemines Parish Detention Center (PPDC). Plans to house out-of-jurisdiction prisoners and corruption by the former sheriff resulted in building a state-of-the-art facility. As of October 2014, the construction of this facility--much larger that the area requires--threatened to wreck the community’s budget just to ...

 

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