Katrina Inmates, and the ACLU
Posted on November 20, 2005
Michelle Malkin reporting that Katrina inmates are on the loose. Meanwhile, the ACLU are not standing idle.
After Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the floodwaters began to rise, the Orleans Parish jail, housing more than 6,000 prisoners, became a scene of chaos and fear where guards abandoned their posts and inmates frantically attempted to escape.
“The water was coming in,” Darlene Poole, an Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputy at the time, recalled Thursday. “We were trying to keep the inmates under control. They were panicking. We didn’t have food. There was no water; no toilets.
“And then the power went out.”
In the wake of the storm, the jail was evacuated and now inmates are scattered across Louisiana in dozens of prisons and parish jails. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union contend lawyers have been denied personal access to the inmates and have asked a federal judge in New Orleans to order prison officials to provide access.
Further, the ACLU is alleging that the treatment of prisoners violated court orders previously entered in the lawsuit.
On Thursday, ACLU attorneys filed written accounts prepared by 45 inmates who alleged they were beaten, shot at and abandoned by guards. The inmates’ identities were not disclosed to protect them from recriminations.
ACLU attorney Eric Balaban, who has worked on a long-running lawsuit challenging prison conditions in Louisiana, said the accounts were “remarkably similar.”
I won’t criticize the ACLU too much on this, however it is interesting to note their priorities. Out of all the victims of Katrina, lunatics shooting at rescue helicopters, etc., the ACLU have chosen to view the criminals as the victims to protect and help. However, I will criticize them on this……
Meanwhile, as criminals run loose, the ACLU are criticizing criminal background checks on these evacuees. Wouldn’t you know? They think the background checks are racist.
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The very reason that one of the proper names for the ACLU organization should be:
AMERICAN CRIMINAL LIBERITIES UNION
“Out of all the victims of Katrina, lunatics shooting at rescue helicopters, etc”
The FAA reported that those allegations are untrue.