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Women’s prison opens 2016 flood displaced inmates to temporary housing
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Gloves move along the assembly line at the SafeSource Direct nitrile glove manufacturing facility in Broussard.
SafeSource Direct cites soft market in closure
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China dominates manufacture of personal protective equipment
Gov. Jeff Landry and Warden Kristen Thomas, center, are joined by staff, partners and lawmakers for the ribbon cutting for the new Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women on Thursday.
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The market for American-made personal protective equipment remains soft because China and other countries continue to dominate the industry, according to data. Broussard-based SafeSource Direct cited market conditions for PPE when it announced Aug. 22 it would suspend operations at its nitrile glove and man-made fiber PPE plants in 60 days, a move that will put 541 people out of work. On Tuesday, a company spokesperson declined to elaborate on those conditions, but national reports in recent weeks paint a dim picture for an industry that was supposed to limit the nation’s reliance on foreign-made PPE. The company hopes to resume operations when market conditions improve and sustained demand for American-made PPE increases, the spokesperson said. It has no immediate plans to resume operations but is continuing on construction of a plant for production of nitrile medical gloves as part of its contract with the government. It’s unknown how many employees will remain after operations halt Oct. 21. SafeSource and others in the industry are trying to survive as Chinese companies are still making PPE cheaper while offering a larger variety of products, according to a report from the
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Louisiana’s only women’s prison formally opened Thursday, after nine years of temporary housing arrangements for over 1,000 female inmates who were displaced by a devastating 2016 flood. The brand-new, $160 million Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, bordered by sugar cane fields and the nearby Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, is designed to withstand a 500-year flood like the historic inundation in August 2016, according to Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections officials. It can accommodate 958 incarcerated women. Gov. Jeff Landry and Warden Kristen Thomas cut the ribbon for the new facility Thursday, emphasizing the prison as a symbol of the modernization of the Louisiana criminal justice system. “It marks, I hope, the beginning of a restructuring and a rebuilding of correctional facilities around the
Warden Kristen Thomas and Gov. Jeff Landry take questions during Thursday’s ribbon cutting for the new prison. state,” Landry said. “This is the first provide women who are incarceratstate facility to be opened in over 35 ed opportunities for personal growth years, so that alone makes this day and rehabilitation. very historic.” ä See PRISON, page 5A Thomas said the prison will
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State Rep. Emerson says she could enter U.S. Senate race
reelection because he joined six ReI get in greatly increase.” Carencro Republican will run if U.S. Rep. Letlow doesn’t chances Demonstrating his vulnerability as publicans and all 50 Democrats in vot-
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into the race if U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow chooses not to run. “I’m waiting to see what she will do. I U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy is likely to face do think there’s an avenue for another another challenger in his bid to win re- candidate, whoever that is,” said Emerelection next year. son, a Republican from Carencro, just State Rep. Julie Emerson said north of Lafayette. “If she formally anWednesday that she is likely to jump nounces she’s definitely out, then the Staff writer
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he seeks a third term, Cassidy is already facing three major Republican challengers: Treasurer John Fleming, state Sen. Blake Miguez of New Iberia and Public Service Commissioner Eric Skrmetta, who represents suburban New Orleans. Cassidy faces such a tough road to
ing to convict Trump for inciting a riot on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Had that vote prevailed, Trump could not have run for president again. The Louisiana Republican Party immediately censured Cassidy for his vote, a
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