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Articles by Jordan Flaherty

The Incarceration Capital of the U.S.

Loaded on June 15, 2011 by Jordan Flaherty published in Prison Legal News June, 2011, page 28
Filed under: Organizing, Totality of Conditions, Jail Specific, Rehabilitation/Recidivism. Location: Louisiana.
A Struggle Over the Size of New Orleans’ Jail Could Define the City’s Future

by Jordan Flaherty

New Orleans’ criminal justice system is at a crossroads. A new mayor and police chief say they want to make major changes, and the police department is facing lawsuits and federal investigations that …

Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home

Loaded on March 15, 2009 by Jordan Flaherty published in Prison Legal News March, 2009, page 18
Filed under: Threats by Staff, Self Incrimination, Criminal Prosecution, Prison/Jail Murders, Escapes, Conditions of Confinement, Strip Cells, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Shootings, International Law, Death Penalty, Military Prisons. Location: Louisiana.

Torture at Angola Prison: President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home

by Jordan Flaherty

The torture of prisoners in US custody is not only found in military prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. If President Obama is serious about ending …

Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2009 by Jordan Flaherty published in Prison Legal News January, 2009, page 8
Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Political Prisoners, Work, Prison Labor, Prison/Jail Murders. Location: Louisiana.

Organizing for Freedom: Resistance at Angola State Penitentiary, Louisiana’s Last Slave Plantation

by Jordan Flaherty

At the heart of Louisiana’s prison system sits the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a former slave plantation where little has changed in the last several hundred years. Angola has been made notorious from books …