Sentence examples for parish jail from inspiring English sources

'Sometime in September, 1962, I was transferred from the Donaldsonville Parish Jail to the Baton Rouge Parish Jail.

One cousin hanged himself in the Acadia Parish jail.

They were being held in the Avoyelles Parish jail.

Jonathan Boyer spent more than seven years in the Calcasieu Parish jail, waiting to be tried.

On the evening of February 16 , 1961 the petitioner, Wilbert Rideau, was arrested and confined in the Calcasieu Parish jail in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

In Boyer v. Louisiana, a defendant spent more than seven years in the Calcasieu Parish jail, waiting to be tried for armed robbery and murder.

Currently, more than half of Louisiana's state inmates are being held in parish jails, a proportion unheard of elsewhere.

Still, Mr. Brewer said, "if one of them were to refuse, you can imagine the repercussions". Nearly half of Louisiana's prisoners are housed in small parish jails, a policy that saves the state from building new prisons and is lucrative for sheriffs, handsomely compensated for the privilege.

The practice is both an odd vestige of the abusive convict-lease system that began in the South around Reconstruction, and an outgrowth of Louisiana's penchant for stuffing state inmates into parish jails — far more than in any other state.

"The government is obligated to provide medical care to people living with HIV in parish jails," McLemore said.

The five parish jails identified in the report as offering HIV testing are publicly operated and are located in the parishes of New Orleans, Jefferson, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge and Lafayette.