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Big Jails and Big Costs
"For many years New Orleans has had the distinction of being both the city with the highest murder rate in the United States1 and with the highest jail incarceration rate in the world, incarcerating people at more than twice the rate of other cities of comparable size..." |
Crisis of Confidence
"Following the tragic shooting death of five teenage boys on the street corners of Josephine and Daneel in Central City in June 2006, New Orleans residents, community organizations and elected officials alike came together to seek solutions for the crime problem that continues to plague the city..." |
Abandoned & Abused
"In the days following Hurricane Katrina, the public was inundated with stories of personal tragedies that were unfolding day by day in the city of New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast region. Some reports were of amazing rescues, but much of the coverage focused on the disaster within the disaster — the thousands of men, women, and children left stranded around New Orleans, in their homes, the Louisiana Superdome, and the Convention Center..." |
Treated Like Trash
"As Hurricane Katrina approached, people throughout the region began to evacuate by the hundreds of thousands. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin estimated that by Sunday night, nearly one million people had fled New Orleans and its surrounding parishes..." |
Who Pays the Price?
"Clarence Earl Gideon was a semi-literate man charged with burglary who was too poor to afford an attorney. At his trial, he asked the judge to appoint an attorney for him, and the judge refused to do so. After trial, he handwrote a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States from his prison cell, asking that his case be heard..." |
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