Reply #16: They could have evacuated prisoners

[Mandate My Ass]

before they drowned. Hundreds were left in holding cells to drown and those who didn't were left there without food or water for 4-5 days. They were chest deep in sewage as the toilets backed up. The ones who got out and captured were kept on a bridge for days without food or water and had to remain seated and urinate and defecate on themselves. Then they were rounded up and kept in an open field where food was thrown over a fence at them.

http://www.alternet.org/katrina/26073/