A man incarcerated at the Orleans Justice Center died Wednesday after being removed from life support following a cardiac arrest, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Officials did not disclose the man’s name or age. His death marks the second at the jail in as many months and the second under Sheriff Michelle Woodfork’s leadership. The jail remains under a longstanding consent decree.
The Sheriff’s Office said the man collapsed at 2:29 p.m. on Sept. 16 on a fourth-floor housing unit and was unresponsive. An OPSO sergeant and medical staff tried to resuscitate and stabilize the man. Emergency Medical Services took him to University Medical Center, where he was placed on life support…