NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A Fox 8 investigation reveals a man sat in jail for another 21 hours last week after he was supposed to be released from the Orleans Justice Center jail. The man’s bail agent blames the jail’s mistaken release of a different inmate.
“The wrong person got out of jail,” said Montrell Carmouche, who works at Operation Restoration, a nonprofit with a bail fund for incarcerated people.
The organization said Tuesday (July 29) it posted bond last Thursday evening for a man accused of a nonviolent offense…