Angola’s old Death Row should be ready to house juvenile offenders from the troubled Bridge City Center in Jefferson Parish soon. Marrero state Senator Patrick Connick has remained invested in the project, after a rash of breakouts and violent incidents at Bridge City over the past year. He says he’s heard on the news there was a staffing shortage for the facility, but he says that’s not accurate…
“Not that I know of. It’s just a natural process where you have to get people into that facility who are going to work there,” says Connick.
Connick says a New Orleans news outlet reported of a “staff shortage”, but says there are plenty of available staff to mind the juveniles; they just need to be re-assigned to the temporary Angola facility. Connick says it will take a bit of time to make preparations to move the Bridge City Center juvenile offenders to Angola, but the biggest hurdles – the legal ones – are cleared…
“We were waiting on the decision by the court, and that decision came back last week….and full speed ahead.”
Connick says he does not know WHEN the juveniles will be moved to Angola. He says times for prisoner transfers are usually not for public knowledge – especially so for juveniles. However, he says the plan is proceeding…
“They are in the process of getting things in order to make the move and to get these juveniles who have caused so much trouble into a place where they can be housed safely, and let these other juveniles who WANT to be rehabilitated to get rehabilitated.”
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