New Orleans has reduced the sentences of dozens of prisoners sent to jail over the years to try and fit the crimes they committed to the punishment.
Its meaning has faced much debate: Is it the sweltering heat? The care-free feeling you get in the city, or the lack of a livable wage?
That wasn't the case in the 1980 and 90s, according to New Orleans’ current district attorney Jason Williams. "One of his predicates wasn't for murder or rape, it was for stealing of an umbrella over the porch while it was raining. Right. So, when you really look at how we were using the habitual offender law, it was not used to keep us safe. It was used to keep certain people down," Williams said.
Lewis is one of more than 80 people who had their sentenced reduced to fit the crimes that they committed. NEWSY'S TAMMY ESTWICK: Do you think you should have been punished? Do you think you should have to serve some jail time? "The 72, we came up with that because we know the first three days out of prison could be to make or break a guy," Smith said."You think the crime rate is high right now? It would've been even higher because every guy that comes out and we are able to talk to him, counsel him, help him, we keep him from going back to prison, committing the crime."
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