On today’s
Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman interviewed Corrine Carey from Human Rights
Watch, who are investigating some 517 prisoners unaccounted for in the wake of
Katrina. According to the HRW
representative:
We went through that list and came up with 517 people who were still unaccounted
for. We’re certainly not saying that those people drowned in the facility, but
there are credible reports, consistent reports from inmates of being left in
that facility in locked cells. And so, we’d like to know from the Orleans
Sheriff and from the Department of Corrections what happened to those 517
people….
for. We’re certainly not saying that those people drowned in the facility, but
there are credible reports, consistent reports from inmates of being left in
that facility in locked cells. And so, we’d like to know from the Orleans
Sheriff and from the Department of Corrections what happened to those 517
people….