Katrina Abu Ghraib????????

[BJW]

This is outrageous!!!!! Please contact M$M and demand more press coverage of Katrina and aftermath!!

OPP Prisoners Contradict Sheriff's Statements, ACLU Saya
by Commondreamns Newswire Thursday, Nov. 17, 2005 at 8:57 PM
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Katrina Abu Grhaib?

Men and Women at Orleans Parish Prison Detail Chaos Following Katrina
Eyewitness Accounts Contradict Sheriff’s Statements, ACLU Says

NEW ORLEANS - November 17 - In legal papers filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union, 45 men and women formerly detained at Orleans Parish Prison recount disturbing details of being abandoned without food or water and abused by guards after Hurricane Katrina struck.

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Some prisoners claim that deputies forced them into their cells by shooting bean bags, macing and tasering them; once they were returned to their cells, some deputies handcuffed the cell doors to prevent them from escaping. As the locked cells began to flood, prisoners hung signs out of the broken windows for help

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shot at some of the prisoners who were attempting to escape the rising water inside the jail, and several prisoners report that they witnessed fellow prisoners getting shot in the back.

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Several prisoners said that the dogs bit other prisoners. Many of the prisoners on the overpass said they were maced and beaten, some for nothing more than sitting next to a fellow prisoner who attempted to stand and stretch after being forced to sit on the pavement for hours. Other prisoners recount being maced and beaten for requesting food and water.

Female prisoners also report that deputies directed degrading and sexually offensive comments at them.

MORE, much MORE....


http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/6354.php

[movonne]

1. Oh, my God...what has happened to this country. Sometimes I'm

not sure if I died and went to hell...

[converted_democrat]

2. Sick, sad, unfuckingbelievable.....n/t

[mom cat]

3. Thanks for posting this critically important information.

The racist abuses before, during and after Katrina should have us all screaming bloody murder.

[mandyky]

4. I wondered all along what happened to inmates

Mayor Naygan was asked about whether the prisons woould evacaate and he made some glib comment about how they would be where they belonged. It sounded ominous - like they'd be dead......