Sheriff Wants a Big Jail in New Orleans, but City Balks | NYTimes.com

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Marlin N. Gusman, right, the Orleans Parish sheriff, with James Stark of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2007.

Even in the context of Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate in the United States, which in turn has the highest incarceration rate in the world, the numbers stand out. This city, by any measure, puts a lot of people in jail. So when the sheriff proposed a large new jail complex, it came as no surprise. The surprise was that the city pushed back...

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