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The New Orleans City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the future of plans to build phase III of Orleans Justice Center, the controversial expansion of the New Orleans jail that has been opposed by criminal justice advocates and some city officials who have protested and even attempted to halt the project.
Sheriff Marlin Gusman says COVID-19 played a role and building Phase III is key to reaching compliance.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two men who admitted to the fatal shooting of an armored truck guard...
City of New Orleans files appeal to court order to expand Orleans jail Share Updated: 5:54 PM CST Mar 9, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Share Updated: 5:54 PM CST Mar 9, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript SULA: WE WILL CHECK IN LATER. A LOCAL ACTIVIST GROUP WANTS THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS TO APPEAL A JUDGE’S ORDER TO EXPAND THE ORLEANS JUSTICE CENTER JAIL, PLANS FOR THE EXPANSION WERE IN THE WORKS FOR YEARS, BUT LAS YEAR THE CITY ASKED THE JUDGE TO SCRAP THEM, U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE LANCE AFRICK WROTE IN HIS RULING THE PROPOSED NEW BUILDING IS PART OF THE AGR...
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Allied Universal Settles EEOC Suit Over Pregnant Guard's Firing Law360 (March 8, 2021, 3:36 PM EST) -- Security company Allied Universal agreed to pay $110,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit brought on behalf of a security guard who the agency said was given tougher duties and was eventually fired after becoming pregnant. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk in the Eastern District of Louisiana signed off on a consent decree Friday under which U.S. Security Associates Inc., which does business as Allied Universal, will shell out $25,000 in...