How inmates are forging weapons, starting fires inside Orleans Justice Center 

About a month after Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson took over control of the city’s jail - the Orleans Justice Center - a knife fight involving four inmates left one of them dead. Two days later, an inmate jumped to his death from the mezzanine-level balcony on one of the tiers, an apparent suicide.
Since then, deputies have routinely dealt with fights, stabbings - and when they’re lucky - the confiscation of homemade knives from inmates before they are used to commit violence.
In an exclusive tour of the jail Tuesday, Hutson gave WWL-TV an extensive look inside the relatively new lockup, pointing out unanticipated sources of these crude prison blades and other security hazards: The jail itself.
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