Council Questions Ankle Monitoring Policy
July 3rd, 2012
The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office’s electronic monitoring program, designed to keep defendants out of jail but under control before trial, faced scrutiny by the New Orleans City Council’s Criminal Justice Committee last week. Sheriff Marlin Gusman told councilmembers that the program, launched in 2010, has been used by more than 400 defendants.…
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