About a month after Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson took over control of the city’s jail – the Orleans Justice Center – a knife fight involving four inmates left one of them dead. Two days later, an inmate jumped to his death from the mezzanine-level balcony on one of the tiers, an apparent suicide. Since then, deputies have routinely dealt with fights, stabbings – and when they’re lucky – the confiscation of homemade knives from inmates before they are used to commit violence. In an exclusive tour of the jail Tuesday, Hutson gave WWL-TV an extensive look inside the relatively new lockup, pointing out unanticipated sources of these crude prison blades and other security hazards: The jail itself. MORE: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/mike-perlstein/how-inmates-are-forging-weapons-starting-fires-inside-orleans-justice-center/289-c8e4238e-bcbe-4210-a5e3-99631e6c0211