Talk:Orleans Parish Prison

Abandonment during Hurricane Katrina
A section discussing abandonment during Katrina should be added. Some sources: --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
 * https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/09/21/new-orleans-prisoners-abandoned-floodwaters
 * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-shaw/hurricane-katrina-and-the_b_541639.html
 * https://www.vice.com/read/hurricane-katrina-was-a-nightmare-for-inmates-in-new-orleans-829
 * https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-report-details-horrors-suffered-orleans-parish-prisoners-wake-hurricane-katrina

Timeline
A question: the article states that the prison was established in 1989. But in the 1986 film "Down by law", the main characters are incarcerated in a prison called that (it's written on their shirts). Was their another prison called that before this one? Library mistress (talk) 18:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

→ OPP has been around since at least 1929. The "Old Parish Prison" was built in 1989 (All citations appear to reference this article, so that may be incorrect). The current prison opened in 2015 and is now called the Orleans Justice Center. This raises the broader question: what is this Wikipedia article about? A particular building, or the history of anything considered "The New Orleans Jail"? "OPP" is ambiguous. Stan (talk) 20:59, 5 May 2021 (UTC)