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600 Inmates left to die!	excon	09/29/05
Hello: Officers in New Orleans simply walked away from a locked and flooding jail building that housed 600 inmates. They were left to fend for themselves (how, I don't know) for 3 days. Did some die? I dunno. Some are missing. Stay tuned. The animals in the zoo weren't left like that. No wonder that bastard quit. To those of you who are surprised at the behavior of these sonofabitches - shame on you for not paying better attention. It doesn't, however, surprise me in the slightest. I'm sure I'll hear from some of you that the prisoners themselves are to blame. Shame on you too. excon
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tomder55		09/30/05
I have to be consistent . I thought the efforts of the locals were dismal across the board; That includes now the correctional system also . Prisoners abandoned in their cells ;nursing house patients left to drown; general population herded into the Super Dome without provisions . They certainly had plenty of time to draw up adequate plans to deal with all these contingencies .It had to be a forewarning that the Red Cross, well before the storm ,refused to set up a permanent shelter systems inside the city limits . Bottom line.....it's a dumb place to build a city; but human history is replete with examples of folly.

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