New Orleans' Newest Jail Open for Business

New Orleans' Newest Jail Open for Business

Tuesday September 6, 2005 9:31 AM

By JIM LITKE
Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As looters filled the streets and shots rang out, the city's overmatched police knew that whatever other endeavors Hurricane Katrina brought to a halt, crime wasn't one of them.

After being criticized for allowing lawlessness to spiral out of control in the days immediately following the storm, police began arresting people but then ran into a new problem - where to put them. With New Orleans' jails flooded, a temporary holding facility was set up at the city's train and bus terminal.

It held only 30 prisoners by Monday, but that number was likely to swell if police from neighboring Jefferson Parish deliver inmates they had held the past few days.
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``The first guy we housed drove up in a stolen car and wanted to buy a bus ticket,'' said Col. Terry Norris of the Louisiana Department of Corrections. ``We gave him a bus ticket, just not to the place he wanted to go.''
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5258771,00.html

that can't hurt. or maybe they need to sober up a bit before being put back on the street.

When things are at their least stable is when enforcing laws like that become the most important.

The mooning, however...why the hell would you arrest somebody for that in this situation?

i'm really tired of the ones that break my heart.

So, the feds can't come in because it's too dangerous and some criticize the police who did stay, who didn't quit, even when their homes had been destroyed?

They should have kept law and order! We'd send in troops to do so, but it's too dangerous.

Is that they depend on electric for their jails to keep the doors locked and to be able to unlock some doors.

Just a point.

it there and they're pissed off?

These guys are headed to the deepest darkest corners of Hell.

Glad they got that "mooner" off the streets.

Who knows who he'd moon next?

**Edited to add this thought**

What kind of fucking state trooper takes the time to arrest someone for mooning at a time like this??

If they don't make people fearful of displeasing Authority, goodness knows what might happen.

:crazy: