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The prisoners getting trapped in the flood jail is wild. The county morgue was next door to the prison, and the bodies were rotting in the open water next to the jail for days.
This is an interview with a guy who was wrongfully convicted of murder by the NOLA DA's office. He was being held on remand for trial in the county jail when Katrina hit. He describes everything that happened in vivid detail.
https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podca...lty-hellish-saga/id1151670380?i=1000389471784
Katrina jokes at a bar can end up with you getting thrown out or beat the fuck up. I work as a booking agent at a welcome center and I'm a tour guide so I deal with clueless tourists daily. I've had people complain that they were mad the 9th isn't all busted up anymore.
I'll check out that podcast, VICE did a really good article on the jail situation.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vi...as-a-nightmare-for-inmates-in-new-orleans-829
In August 2005, the majority of OPP's roughly 6,800 prisoners hadn't been convicted of a serious crime. They were people who couldn't pay traffic tickets, drunk tourists who'd pissed on Bourbon Street, kids caught smoking pot.
Raphael Schwartz, a 26-year-old Missouri man arrested for public intoxication on August 27, said he was held in a cell with no ventilation and nothing to eat or drink for four days. Renard Reed, a guard at OPP's psychiatric ward, reported being locked into the ward to prevent his desertion, and then being ordered to the roof with a shotgun and told to shoot anyone trying to leave the flooded buildings
Ashley George, a 13-year-old girl housed in OPP's Youth Center, said she was moved to an adult male holding area where she spent days in water up to her neck.
Fucking insane stuff.