The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.
OPELOUSAS, La. — A weathered cinder block sits on a shelf in St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz’s office — a reminder, he says, of deteriorating conditions at the parish jail and a December escape by three inmates who chipped through a wall.
Guidroz said the escape exposed long-standing problems at the jail in Opelousas, which opened in the mid-1980s…