Susan Hutson wins NOLA sheriff race

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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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ENSURE GENDER-CONFIRMING HOUSING Sex and gender are not synonymous. Housing trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming persons, in all cases, based on their sex versus gender identify has been demonstrated to put them at greater risk for harm. It is time for this harmful practice to come to an end. Incarceration should equate to loss of liberty, not loss of dignity.

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CULTIVATE CITIZENSHIP EVEN WHILE INCARCERATED Jails are often filled with people who remain eligible to vote, but not given sufficient access to balloting. Ignoring the conditions and treatment of the incarcerated becomes easier for politicians to do when there are no consequences for doing so on Election Day. It is time to turn the Orleans Justice Center into a voting precinct and add a polling station to the facility, ensuring that the right to vote is never abridged for those who are eligible.

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