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Abandonment during Hurricane Katrina

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A section discussing abandonment during Katrina should be added. Some sources:

--ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:42, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline

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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)[reply]

→ OPP has been around since at least 1929.[1] 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 [2] and is now called the Orleans Justice Center[3]. 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)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "ORLEANS PARISH PRISON" (PDF). ACLU. American Civil Liberties Union.
  2. ^ Mustian, Jim (2015-09-14). "As new $145 million jail opens, city closes sordid chapter with shuttering of Old Parish Prison". NOLA.com. The Advocate. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  3. ^ OPSO https://opso.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=400&Itemid=1. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)