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Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells (New York, September 22, 2005)輸s
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. Inmates in Templeman III, one of several
buildings in the Orleans Parish Prison compound, reported that as of Monday, August 29, there were no
correctional officers in the building, which held more than 600 inmates. These inmates, including some who
were locked in ground-floor cells, were ...
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