Louisiana official wants to take library’s money to build new jail

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The jail can hold 244 prisoners. As of Monday, 335 inmates were on the detention center’s online roster. Michael LeBlanc, whom the parish council hired as the project’s consultant this summer, has posited the parish should build a 540-bed, $25-million jail. Capacity needs are based on LeBlanc’s own formula, to the chagrin of the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana, which has called for the parish to commission an expert to study Lafourche’s needs.

“If this fails, I give up,” Toups said. “I’m going to wait until the federal judge shuts it down. I vote no new taxes.”