Burton was trapped inside the Orleans Parish Prison, known as The Old Parish. It was far bigger and, most say, far worse in 2005, when the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office basically rented out many of its beds. Prison guards came from across the country to ‘help’The old Orleans Parish Prison jail-issue clothes. After being rescued from the Orleans Parish jail complex, many of the men were transferred to Angola. Still, even by the time the courts reopened, thousands of those held in the Orleans Parish jail were still locked up without clear charges.