WHY SHE’S RUNNING
Accountability, Transparency & Systematic Change
Susan Hutson is a nationally recognized leader in police monitoring and accountability. She served as Independent Police Monitor in New Orleans for 11 years, demanding that NOPD truly serve and protect all residents. Now, Susan is running for sheriff of Orleans Parish to bring the same reform agenda to the troubled parish jail. She will be a leader and build an administration focused on much-needed accountability, transparency and systematic change.
Meet Susan Hutson
Susan’s story, like many, begins before her birth, in the piney woods of East Texas, where in 1941, following an altercation with a white teenage male, her grandfather, Jimmie Hutson, a parent of seven children, was shot and killed, while unarmed, by the sheriff in a small town near Nacogdoches. His crime? Being in possession of the temerity to say ‘no’ to on-the-job, race-based discrimination at the height of the Jim Crow era.
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On the Issues
Orleans Parish is gripped by a fierce urgency to course-correct the failings of the parish jail. There continues to be an effort to increase the size of the jail and, thus, the footprint of incarceration in our region; costly litigation continues to mar the reputation of the parish; and violence remains unabated inside the jail--creating an unsafe environment for those who work and who are housed there. Susan will address these issues by, finally, implementing the three Cs of corrections: care, custody and control.
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