In the early hours of May 16, 2025, ten inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in what may be the most consequential failure since the facility came under federal oversight more than a decade ago. Among them was Derrick Groves, convicted in October 2024 of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts […]
Despite an outpouring of pushback from members of OPPRC and many others, the City Council will soon debate a zoning change needed for the $51 million psychiatric and special needs jail that was federally mandated as part of the Consent Decree and will be operated by Sheriff Marlin Gusman. Though the City Planning Commission (CPC) […]
The Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC), and partners, second lined to encourage the City Planning Commission to recommend against building the Phase III Psychiatric Jail. New Orleans, LA, October 9, 2021—The Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC) and other criminal justice reform organizations hosted a Jazz funeral for the hopeful death of the Phase […]
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