Talk:Orleans Parish Prison
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Abandonment during Hurricane Katrina
[edit]A section discussing abandonment during Katrina should be added. Some sources:
- https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/09/21/new-orleans-prisoners-abandoned-floodwaters
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-shaw/hurricane-katrina-and-the_b_541639.html
- https://www.vice.com/read/hurricane-katrina-was-a-nightmare-for-inmates-in-new-orleans-829
- https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-report-details-horrors-suffered-orleans-parish-prisoners-wake-hurricane-katrina
--ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Timeline
[edit]A question: the article states that the prison was established in 1989. But in the 1986 film "Down by law", the main characters are incarcerated in a prison called that (it's written on their shirts). Was their another prison called that before this one? Library mistress (talk) 18:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
→ OPP has been around since at least 1929.[1] The "Old Parish Prison" was built in 1989 (All citations appear to reference this article, so that may be incorrect). The current prison opened in 2015 [2] and is now called the Orleans Justice Center[3]. This raises the broader question: what is this Wikipedia article about? A particular building, or the history of anything considered "The New Orleans Jail"? "OPP" is ambiguous. Stan (talk) 20:59, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
References
- ^ "ORLEANS PARISH PRISON" (PDF). ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union.
- ^ Mustian, Jim (2015-09-14). "As new $145 million jail opens, city closes sordid chapter with shuttering of Old Parish Prison". NOLA.com. The Advocate. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ OPSO https://opso.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400&Itemid=1.
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