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Prison · New OrleansMore than a decade before the recent New Orleans jailbreak, the city’s lawless lockup went viral in a series of videos showing inmates chugging Budweiser, snorting drugs, gambling with handfuls of cash and ejecting bullets from a handgun. “You can get what you want in here,” an inmate boasted without a supervisor in sight. “Medication. Pills. Drugs. Heroin.” The jaw-dropping footage fueled a sweeping 2013 court order intended to reform one of the most violent jails in the country — a decaying emblem of the crime and corruption that have long plagued New Orleans.See the Story
New Orleans’ Jail System Was Troubled Decades Before 10 Inmates Made an Audacious Escape
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