A makeshift prison has been set up in the Greyhound bus and train station in downtown New Orleans. The nearby prison, was flooded after hurricane Katrina. What happened to the prisoners there and ...

Hurricane Aftermath and Civil Liberties >> An inmate is searched before being transported from New Orleans. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton / Reuters) RESOURCES Orleans Parish Prison: A Big Jail with Big ...

A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their ...

The team also includes Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy-nominated producer Ryan Coogler from Proximity Media, who directed the ...

WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Katrina was a huge disaster that attracted volunteers and fraudsters alike. In both camps were outsiders and homegrown residents. By 2011, the Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task ...

Inmates at Orleans Parish Prison reported that they spent several days in flooded cells without food or water while awaiting rescue after Hurricane Katrina. Dan Evon Published Sept. 13, 2018 ...

Before Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans in 2005, the rate at which the city incarcerated people in Orleans Parish Prison, its jail complex, stood at five times the national average.

A report released Thursday describes Orleans Parish prisoners trapped in flooded cells, deprived of food and water for days, and calls the scene at the jail “some of the worst horrors of Hurr… ...

Swept Up In The Storm: Hurricane Katrina's Key Players, ... In September 2014, Nagin started serving a 10-year sentence at a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas.

Calling the crimes inexcusable and barbaric, a judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers to prison Thursday for their roles in the shooting death of an unarmed man whose body was la ...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- A 30-year-old woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim and receiving relief money from the American Red ...