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Times Picayune, "Justice system creeps toward improvement after Hurricane Katrina"
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Published: Aug 27 2010
The New Orleans Times Picayune reports that five years after Hurricane Katrina, doing "Katrina time" has decreased and other improvements to the criminal justice system have slowly begun, including
- developing a day-reporting center for people on probation or parole
- establishing a learning center where court-referred defendants could learn to read or study for the GED
- appointing an independent police monitor agency, and
- "requiring attorneys to work full-time, representing defendants from just after arrest and beefing up investigation to offer clients a more rigorous defense"
