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| ACLU: New Orleans jail unsafe |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 08/20/2007 |
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LOUISIANA - Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city's jail is plagued by inadequate medical care, violence, overcrowding and squalid conditions, according to a report to be issued Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU report is sharply critical of the Orleans Parish sheriff's office, accusing it of failing to seek expert guidance in developing a proper emergency preparedness plan for the jail, which wasn't evacuated until it flooded in the aftermath of Katrina in 2005. The jail, the ACLU asserts, "appears doomed to repeat the mistakes made during Katrina. In the meantime, thousands of prisoners remain in the jail, where they are housed in unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane conditions." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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