In Cahoots with Katrina

For the Stop The ACLU Blogburst:

This is an older piece but just in case you are unsure if the ACLU has gone over the top or not I submit this article: ACLU Sues Over Conditions at La. Jail.

From the article:

"A civil rights group filed court papers Thursday demanding access to the New Orleans city jail to investigate allegations that inmates were abandoned for days after Hurricane Katrina, without food or drinking water, in chest-high floodwaters with floating corpses. It took three days to evacuate more than 6,000 inmates from the lockup after the storm hit Aug. 29, prison authorities have said. The prisoners are now being held at 38 state and local lockups around Louisiana.

The American Civil Liberties Union's court filings demand information about where each prisoner is locked up. The group also wants the sheriff's office to halt any cleanup at the jail because it could destroy evidence that prisoners were left standing in bacteria- and petroleum-laden floodwater.

The ACLU was named counsel for all the jail's inmates under a 1994 federal consent decree mandating heath and environmental standards."

So I guess an emergency due to a hurricane still mandates health and environmental standards to a group of criminals that thousands of law abiding citizens could not be afforded? It is bad but this lawsuit is an insult to all the legitimate victims of this disaster.

Peace and good day.

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