Didn’t 400+ of them die?

The one I’m thinking of, there were over 600 inmates, some of whom were juveniles that had been transferred right before the storm. A 13 year old girl spent hours in water up to her neck, most of which was contaminated with sewage. www.hrw.org/news/2005/09...

New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters

As Hurricane Katrina began pounding New Orleans, the sheriff's department abandoned hundreds of inmates imprisoned in the city’s jail, Human Rights Watch said today.