Fwd: [ cacklinggrackle] Prisoners were abandoned to floodwaters

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Sep 26, 2005 12:39 PM

[cacklinggrackle] Prisoners were abandoned to floodwaters

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" As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's

department abandoned hundreds of

inmates imprisoned in the city's jail, Human Rights Watch said today.

 

" Inmates in Templeman III, one of several buildings in the Orleans

Parish Prison compound, reported

that as of Monday, August 29, there were no correctional officers in

the building, which held more

than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who were locked in

ground-floor cells, were not

evacuated until Thursday, September 1, four days after flood waters in

the jail had reached

chest-level.

 

" 'Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of

the worst,' said Corinne

Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. 'Prisoners were abandoned

in their cells without food or

water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.' "

 

Full story at:

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0923-01.htm