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Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman continues to live in an alternate reality when it comes to facing facts about his failure to properly run the city's jail. After being in denial for months, if ...
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman promised to hire a classification manager and someone to develop new policies and procedures for the city's troubled jail by June 1. He was supposed to hire a ...
FILE – In this Sept. 14, 2015, file photo, Marlin Gusman, sheriff of New Orleans, speaks outside a new jail facility in New Orleans as buses transferring inmates from the old jail arrive. Gusman ...
“Deputies have a responsibility,” said former Orleans Parish sheriff Marlin Gusman. “They don’t just sit somewhere and look at the wall. They have to get up and move.” ...
Former Sheriff Marlin Gusman told Fox 8 on Saturday that his administration only housed high-security inmates on the jail’s second or third floors, thus placing additional barriers between them ...
The federal consent decree announced Tuesday by U.S. Justice Department officials is designed to reform what the federal government argues are unconstitutional failures by Sheriff Marlin Gusman to ...
Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman walked out of federal court with cameras trained on him and reporters shouting questions. Dozens of people showed up just to see Gusman testify.
A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman didn't falsely imprison Robie Waganfeald and Paul Kunkel Jr., both of Toledo.
Former Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman discuses the security breach at a New Orleans prison that resulted in 10 inmates escaping on 'America Reports.' ...
Sheriff Marlin Gusman told the New Orleans City Council on Thursday that just six months into 2015, his office is out of money.
Sheriff Marlin Gusman said Sgt. Scott Williams used "his training and quick decision-making" to both apprehend 27-year-old Issac Hill and recover the handgun he allegedly used to shoot a man, thus ...