BGR Outlook on Orleans
The Criminal Sheriff and District Attorney
		August 1998

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v	The average number of prisoners held in Orleans Parish jail facilities has gone up 87.6 percent between 1987 and 1997, from 3,515 to 6,593. On any given day, approximately half the prisoners are awaiting trial.
v	The City must compensate the Criminal Sheriff $19.65 per day for each inmate who is not a state or federal prisoner. The state pays $23.00 per day for state prisoners, and the federal government pays $45.00 per day for federal prisoners.
v	The Criminal Sheriff has projected a $60 million budget for 1998 - 45 percent from the City of New Orleans, 38 percent from the state, 10 percent from the federal government, and the remaining 7 percent is self-generated.
v	The District Attorney has an essentially standstill budget for 1998 ($8.3 million), with revenues increasing by four percent and expenses by less than one percent.
v	The City of New Orleans allocated 4.6 percent of its 1998 operating budget to state-mandated expenses of the Criminal Sheriff and District Attorney. If the City pays the additional $9 million to the Sheriff, the portion of the budget allocated to these two non-city offices will be 6.6 percent.
v	The Governor has appointed a commission to examine state-mandated expenses. In a state-wide poll of local government officials, costs for sheriffs and district attorneys were considered the most burdensome.