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Imprisoned in New Orleans: the people wanted to rebuild. What they got instead were private security forces.
When Hurricane Katrina hit, there was no evacuation plan for the 7,000 prisoners in Orleans Parish Prison, the New Orleans city jail, generally known as OPP, or the approximate 1,500 prisoners in nearby jails. According to first-hand accounts gathered by advocates, prisoners were abandoned in their cells while the water was rising around them. They were subjected to a heavily armed "rescue" by state prison guards that involved beatings, mace and being left in the sun with no water or food for several days, followed by a transfer to state maximum security prisons. Although their treatment brought national attention to the condition of prisoners in Louisiana, and comparison ...
- Eugene police arrest New Orleans escapee.(Crime)(Ahmad Nelson, who fled...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) December 3, 2005 700+ words
...Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard A New Orleans native who escaped from a Louisiana parish prison during Hurricane Katrina was arrested...Nelson became a cause celebre in New Orleans in April 2002 when he was charged...
- The New Orleans of Lafcadio Hearn: Illustrated Sketches from the Daily City...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Bernhard, Jim August 1, 2008 700+ words
...and New Orleans. In New Orleans he wrote for the Daily...International Center in New Orleans, has compiled and edited...snapshots of ordinary New Orleans life. His first column...of bat guano at the parish prison, and he railed at such...
- HURRICANE KATRINA; New Orleans: Diagram of a disaster; "The city will not be...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Mississippi River, New Orleans sits below sea level...belongings. Orleans Parish Prison: Inmates being evacuated...Regional disaster updates New Orleans - Mayor says hundreds...Estimated 80 percent of New Orleans under water, up to...
- POLICE ARREST MAN IN WOMAN'S SLAYING : SUSPECT WILL WAIVE EXTRADITION FROM NEW...
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) June 19, 1997 700+ words
...Department detectives, said New Orleans police Lt. Marlon Defillo...old Tanya Banks, of New Orleans, said that Smith will...Smith traveled from New Orleans to meet with Moody and...without bail in Orleans Parish Prison. Prosecutor Camille...
- New Orleans jail violates inmates' rights, report says
- Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette Michael Kunzelman September 23, 2009 700+ words
NEW ORLEANS - Violent guards, understaffing and...constitutional rights of inmates at a New Orleans jail heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina...and dated Sept. 11, said that Orleans Parish Prison doesn't adequately protect inmates...
- New Orleans unveils new visitation system.(State to State)
- Newspaper article from: Corrections Compendium St. Gerard, Vanessa September 1, 2003 700+ words
...an effort to improve security, workers at Orleans Parish Prison have installed fiber-optic cable in the 7,200...contraband during visits. Although a bold change in New Orleans, Foti's electronic visitation system is not Louisiana...
- Dawn Dedeaux at the Contemporary Arts Center. (video installation; New Orleans,...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Vetrocq, Marcia E. June 1, 1993 700+ words
...Dedeaux's insight and imagery developed during 18 months of workshops she conducted with young inmates of the Orleans Parish Prison. She directed their efforts in the creation of artists' books (one, A Book of Judgments, was on view at CAC), which...
- INS NEEDS TO BE CALLED TO ACCOUNT.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) September 4, 1997 700+ words
...each separately called the New Orleans office of the INS and asked...Mrs. Thompson flew back to New Orleans in March, she was told to report...Thompson had been taken to the New Orleans Parish Prison, where she was held for eight...
