Day Three of a weeklong hearing to determine the city’s responsibilities for reforming the Orleans Parish prison complex under a proposed federal consent decree featured testimony from mental health experts, mentally ill inmates, and Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin.
The city has been trying to avoid legal exposure to the decree, saying the cost is prohibitive and that Sheriff Marlin Gusman, the parish jailer, is incapable of managing the turnaround effectively.
Presented this week in U.S. District Court Judge Lance Africk’s courtroom, the case so far has drawn testimony primarily from two groups of witnesses: experts in criminology, and inmates who have experienced the allegedly unconstitutional conditions at the jail.
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