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| One year after flood: Evacuated inmates restock wares, prison stands empty |
| By theadvocate.com- Emma Discher |
| Published: 08/14/2017 |
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Angela Stokes lost nearly everything she gathered in her 26 years in prison when it flooded in August 2016, including photos of her now grown children and legal paperwork that could be key in an upcoming pardon board hearing. One year later, Stokes and more than 1,000 other inmates from the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women are still trying to replace what was lost and create a new normal in temporary facilities, while officials mull over their options for restoring or rebuilding the flooded St. Gabriel complex. As the waters rose on Aug. 16, the women had limited time to pack what they could in two laundry bags, wade through water to buses and set off to unknown locations across the state. They didn’t know how long they would be gone, so many packed what they would need for a few days, thinking their treasured items would be safe within the what they had thought were the flood-proof walls of the prison. Read More. |
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