In New Orleans, violent crime is way down, but the city’s jail is packed

On Friday afternoon in Block C, which houses the Orleans Justice Center’s juvenile pod, nine shackled youths studied on laptops in the jail’s school. The remaining seven incarcerated male juveniles were locked in their cells. One teen lay in bed, his small frame almost undetectable under a beige blanket. Taped…

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