Body and Soul: More on Orleans Parish Prison
During Katrina I wondered what they had done about the jails and prisons in the area...
well, it turns out not much...
"We had no phone lines, no electricity," she said. "There was raw gas in the water ... If it wasn't for the deputies, a lot of people would have died."
She believes many drowned anyway, including inmates housed on the first floor of the Templeman 3 building, where Barnes said that in the chaos, some inmates may have remained locked inside.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
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