Baton Rouge city-parish officials have tasked an architectural firm with devising a plan for a new jail and juvenile detention center to house the parish’s pretrial detainees, a move that
A building inspector chief contracted by the city-parish was arrested Monday on accusations he distributed child sexual abuse material, according to Homeland Security Investigations.
Almost a month has passed since East Baton Rouge Parish began sending arrested 17-year-olds to a facility upstate, after Sheriff Sid Gautreaux deemed the local jail unfit to house them.