“We were hollering and screaming for help for days. Nobody came.”
ACLU, Abandoned and Abused, 18–24 8.
“We were hollering and screaming for help for days. Nobody came.”
ACLU, Abandoned and Abused, 18–24 8.
Smith v. Jindal (2010),
Smith v. Jindal, 2010 WL 688803 (E.D. La. 2010).
These were not accidental emergency failures, they were the result of a facility that had historically failed to meet basic human needs.
American Civil Liberties Union, Abandoned and Abused: Orleans Parish Prisoners in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2006), 18–24.
they “were not told about the approaching storm” and “were given no opportunity to prepare”.
ACLU, Abandoned and Abused, 18–24