[Dems_R_Losers]

Unbelievable. Where is the head of Public Safety for New Orleans? Was there no disaster plan for the jails in cased of flooding? This incompetence is just beyond my comprehension. I can't wait for the wave of civil rights lawsuits that will be filed by all these prisoners. It's only a matter of time before we hear that "we treated the prisoners at Abu Ghraib better than these people."

[FreedomCalls]

This incompetence is just beyond my comprehension.

Does this help your comprehension any?

New Orleans has a Democrat Mayor, a Democrat City Council, and a Democrat Chief of Police. Louisiana has a Democrat Governor, a Democrat Lt. Governor, a Democrat Attorney General; 24 of 39 Louisiana State Senators are Democrat, 67 of 105 Louisiana State House Representatives are Democrat, there's a Democrat Representative in the House from New Orleans, and one of two Senators in the Senate is a Democrat.

[bigsigh]

Worse. There was a 24-36 hour notice of the hurricaine. Time to evacute inmates to other facilities. Florida did an excellent job of this during hurricane andrew.

[marajade]

My guess is they planned to use the National Guard to help facilitate evacuation.

Well the National Guard is busy doing everthing else.

[rdcorso]

I know that it would be difficult to move five thousand prisoners in one or two days but it wouldn't be impossible.I've been working in a prison for fifteen years and the last ten have been on the transportation unit.In my state we have about twenty five buses that hold anywhere from 20 inmates to forty eight inmates and we have over a hundred vans with cages.The buses could have been driven by the transportation staff since all have commercial drivers licenses while the vans could have been driven by regular prison staff.The entire population of five thousand could have been moved if every vehicle was filled to capacity and made between three or four trips.If they did release prisoners in New Orleans it happened because they were too lazy and incompetent to create and carryout an evacuation plan.