Prisoners of New Orleans need your help now (Hurricane Gustav)!!!
by Critical Resistance
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Prisoners and Families of New Orleans needs your help immediately!
*To All CR members, Allies, and Comrades of New Orleans, *
*Prisoners and Families of New Orleans needs your help immediately!*
If you haven't heard already Hurricane Gustav is headed for New Orleans
and is predicted to be a category 3 hurricane, the same as Hurricane
Katrina. There will possibly be a mandate for all people (outside of
prisons and jails) of New Orleans to evacuate starting tomorrow August 29th,
the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It is predicted that
hurricane Gustav will pose great flooding potential regardless of its
category rating, the levee that broke by elected official's decisions during
Hurricane Katrina has not been fixed to it's potential, or replaced.
The over crowding Orleans Parish Prison, located in New Orleans, holds 2,
500 prisoners (this count is not certain, due to lack of information given
to the public.) Although not official, we have information that the
Prisoners of Orleans Parish Prison will be evacuating to Angola Prison and
Hunt Prison in the next coming days and are also prisons that can be
affected by Hurricane Gustav due to overcrowding.
*During Hurricane Katrina* there were prisoners able to evacuate and others
who remained locked in their cells with a minimal chance of
survival. Prisoners were left in flooded cells, with no food, and had
minimal ventilation, to say the least. Family members, of prisoners who were
held at Orleans Parish Prison, are still in the fight to locate their loved
ones who had been evacuated to other prisons during Katrina. Due to the
flooding, lack of organization and care from New Orleans Department of
Corrections and elected officials, prisoner's records were also missing. As
a result, prisoner's constitutional rights have been violated.
*This abuse can not happen again! *
*What will happen to the prisoners of Orleans Parish Prison located in New
Orleans this time?*
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Critical Resistance (CR) is demanding that the elected officials of New
Orleans will not create the same devastating wrongs as they did to the
prisoners of Orleans Parish Prison during hurricane Katrina.
* 1. we demand a full and safe evacuation of all prisoners
2. we demand to know what the evacuation plan for prisoners is
3. we demand to see a public document about that plan immediately
4. we demand information about how we can find people after an evacuation
*
*We are urging every member, ally and comrade of New Orleans across the
country, to make at least one call to:*
*Sheriff Malrin Gusman:* *504.827.8505 *
*(James Carter's secretary said "Orleans Parish Prison is Gusman's prison")*
** *James Carter: 504.658.1030*
*(Criminal Justice Council Member who is able to put pressure on the sheriff
even if they say they can't)*
*You can also send an email: **JCarter@cityofno.com*
*please put in your email subject: How will you protect prisoners this time?**
*Please call as many times as you can to put pressure on them and let them
know our demands and it is their job to be accountable to us!!!!!!!! *
For further information from us please contact Critical Resistance New
Orleans:
Mayaba: 917.385.5472 or mayaba@criticalresistance.org
Koolblack: 504.813.4714 or koolblack@criticalresistance.org
(*If you can't get through due to evacuation please contact: **
pilar@criticalresistance.org* * for further
information)*
In solidarity,
Critical Resistance
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ACROSS THE WORLD
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