Orleans Criminal District Judge Laurie White Since December, these public officials have been trying to figure out whether all juveniles charged with serious crimes can be moved from Orleans Parish Prison and how much it would cost. Some members of a working group convened by Mayor Mitch Landrieu want to ensure young defendants are sent someplace safer - a place designed for them, not adults. But until recently, most New Orleans judges had continued to send them to Orleans Parish Prison. Now it’s up to judges to decide, usually based on defense attorneys’ requests.
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Until a few years ago, Louisiana law required youth to be jailed as adults if they were awaiting trial in adult court. “It’s a lot easier to look away,” he said at a New Orleans City Council committee meeting in April.īarbery, who works for Orleans Public Defenders, was one of about a dozen juvenile advocates who spoke about a local campaign to keep criminal suspects as young as 14 out of one of the most dangerous jails in the country. His nose was disfigured and his bottom lip had been ripped open and sewn back together - injuries from a jail fight that lasted for 10 minutes before a guard noticed. The boy’s face was swollen like a balloon. NEW ORLEANS - Marcos Barbery sat across from the teenager in a visitor’s booth at Orleans Parish Prison. This story was done in collaboration with The Lens, a nonprofit news site based in New Orleans.
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