From Holden: The New Orleans Sherrif’s Department left abandoned hundreds of prisoners during the week Katrina struck. Human Rights Watch is on it. Inmates in Templeman III, one of several buildings in the Orleans Parish Prison compound, reported that as of Monday, August 29, there were no correctional officers in the building, which held more than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who were locked in ground-floor cells, were not evacuated until Thursday, September 1, four days after flood waters in the jail had reached chest-level. “Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” … Continue reading Outrage