High Corruption in New Orleans
The New Statesman 11.04.2011

The horrific breakdown of the rule of law in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. The headline refers to the fact that the prisoners in the main jail were nearly left to drown as the water rose. It had reached neck height in some cases before a warder swam down with a key to let them out. It describes a mini Guantanamo built at the bus station, by prisoners from Angola penitentiary, to lock up ‘suspects.’ – in truth people randomly arrested often without charge who disappeared from the system for weeks on end. Louisiana’s own present day Gulag.

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