"Police Jail & Parish Prison"

ID: 3817 ~ Source: LOUISiana Digital Collection, Louisiana State Museum ~ Creator: W.D. McPherson ~ Date: 1864

This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

This photograph, taken in 1864, shows the Orleans Parish Prison as it looked then. Notice that the lookout tower to the right is still intact unlike in the previous photograph.

This file appears in: “Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

“Confined in the Dungeons”: Orleans Parish Prison and Self-Emancipated People

By Lauren Smith, Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor & Brett Todd. Contributor

Located in Treme, the original Orleans Parish Prison stood where the Municipal Auditorium and Louis Armstrong Park stand today. From the 1830s to 1895, the prison housed individuals accused of crimes,…