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Thursday, September 29, 2005

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juana bourgeois

I FOR ONE THINK THAT IT IS A PITY FUL AND A CRIME MOTHER FUCKING SHAME FOR NOT ONLY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUT THE MAYOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE THE LOW DOWN SELF CENTERED DEPUTIES THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ANY ONE ELSE WHO IS QUICK TO THROW OUR PRISONERS IN JAIL AND NOT MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE @ STABLE GROUND .HOW WOULD THEY LIKE IT IF WE TREATED THEM THAT WAY AND THEY WONDER WHY OUR PEOPLE AND CITIZENS OF NEW ORLEANS ACT THE WAY THEY DO .NOW U SEE THEY TREAT THEM LIKE ANIMALS LIKE THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH .LOOK @WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO OUR PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA ESPICALLY NEW ORLEANS THEY TREATED US LIKE SLAVES LIKE THERE WAS NO PLACE ON THIS EARTH FOR US AND I SOMETIMES HAVE TO QUESTION THE RIGHTS OF THE GOVERNMENT THAT DIDNT COME HELP OUR CITIZENS .A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WERE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE PRISONERS ESPICALLY THE PRISON ITSELF THATS NOT RIGHT THAT IS SOMEONE MOTHER FATHER BROTHER SISTER OR ANYBODYS FAMILY MEMBER AND TO SHOW THAT THEY DIDNT CARE SOME FAMILIES STILL HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED OF THERE LOVED ONES WHERE ABOUTS .I HAVE A VERY CLOSE FRIEND THAT WAS IN TEMPLEMEN3 AS WELL AND STILL DONT KNOW HIS WHEREABOUTS UNTIL NOW .I THINK THEY WERE WRONG FOR WHAT THEY DID AND SHOULD BE PUNISHED AND PLACED IN PRISON ALSO. PLEASE GIVE ME ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN ON BYRON JOSHUA 1-26-84 TELL HIM TO CONTACT JUANA @XXX-XXXXXXX /OR WRITE TO:[XXXXXXXXXXXXX DALLAS,TEXAS 75237] TELL HIM I LOVE HIM AND HOPE THAT HE IS OK YOURS TRULY JUANA BOURGEOIS THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT OUR PRISONERS @ LEAST SOME ONE IS CONCERNED CAUSE THE GOVERNMENT ISNT I RECENTLY TALKED TO SOMEONE FROM HUNTS WHO SAID THEY ONLY FEED THEM ENOUGH TO SURVIVE THATS REAL SAD


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cassandra knapper

My boyfriend Damon Holmes was left in Tempalment2 left to die also and I think its a FUCKING SHAME for him to be treated that way and the rest of the prisoners and I think all those prisoners that was left to die should be released except for the murders and raper mans AND I THINK THE BITCHEST THAT LEFT THEM SHOULD BE ARRESTED ARE HUNG BY THEY NECK JUST LIKE THEY LEFT THOSE POOR PRISONERS TO DIE yes I have found my boyfriend and he is not in jail for MURDER or RAPE he is in there for one little piece of crack and was left to die FUCK the mayor and the chief of police and also Bigalo the judge that put him there like he couldnt put him on provation and if it is up to me them BITCHES wouldnt be voted in a mayor chair a chief of police chair or a JUDGE chair and Im happy you care thank you for caring and going talk to the prisoners"signed a MAD BLACK WOMAN" and all her kids Bydreka,Damanisha,and Byron Knapper

anicia chatters

hello i am trying to find my friend Dawayne (Chill) Shelley 9-17-77 he was in temp 3 and i have not heard anything on him can you please tell him that i am ok and i am thinking about him if you have any information please contact me by e-mail please thanks

sherre boteler

my husband was in orleans parish jail also on a rape charge that he didnt do.....i have evidence that he was lied on and falsely arrested and still cant get help for him.....also my husband is very ill and they knew that and still left him there to die. he was also left out in the rain on the field at hunts. it is all true! he has been to 3 prisons since hurricane and has been incarcrated now for 125 days just waiting to go to court.
its a damn shame when someone can prove they are innocent and still cant be released. who waits 11 months to report a rape? what a joke new orleans was, is and will forever be!

sherre boteler

you know what i dont understand about our "great mayor"...lol ray nagin....he's more worried about the city having mardi gras and hearing people parting in the streets than geting help for these men and women that they left to die in the wake of a cat. 5 hurricane. what a joke he is!! who gives a damn about mardi gras? and the city rebuilding for the partiers.... we want out family members back ! i have not sen my husband in 4 months. it took me 8 days to even find out that he was still alive after the hurricane. i lived from shelter to shelter all alone for 8 weeks with not even help from fema....because they are a joke too. the entire government is a joke! the "declartion of independence" says all men and women are to created equally. DOSENT THAT COUNT FOR THE ONES IN JAIL ALSO.....THEY SAVED THE ANIMALS BUT TREATED OUR HUSBANDS, MOTHERS, FATHERS, BROTHERS, AND SISTERS WORSE. WHO IS GONNA STAND UP AND BE MEN AND SAY THEY WERE WRONG....and now they are saying it may be another 6 months to a year before anyone even sees a court room. they say they lost their evidence on the cases they had well, i have proof of my husbands innocense and they still dont care. but they gonna have mardi gras! WHAT A JOKE! "I'LL NEVER GO BACK!"

frederika carter

HI. I'M DERIKA ITHINK IS'S A DAME SHAME WHAT THE PEPOLE OF NOLO WENT THREW .MY FATHER WAS A INMATE AT TEM3. WE COULD NOT LOCATE HIS WERE ABOUTS .WE CALL OOP FOR INFORMATION THEY COULDNOT HELP US AT ALL.SO MY SISTER AND I STARED CALLING EVERY JAIL THEY HAD IN LA. .WE FOUND HIM IN HUNTS LA. EVERYTHING THAT THE INMATE'S SAID IS TRUE .I THINK EVERY THING IN OFFICE IN NOLA.CAN KISS MY A#@. BECAUSE THEY GIVE ME A FREE RIDE OUT OF HELL. THANK YOU STUPID A$%.

Ian

I was just booked and released from OPP. Condintions are still the same pretty much.

J. Roos

I was booked and processed at O.P.P. for two misdemeanors on july 8th 2006. My family posted bail as soon as they possible and I was not released until july 12th. The place is very overcrowded and immates do not even have room on the floor. I counted 55 people in a holding area not bigger than a classroom. Thier was no room to move you could not be anywhere without touching at least one person. The conditions are not fit for any human being. People were vomiting because of the smell and heat. The guards treated immates like animals. I believe conditions at O.P.P. should be investagated by the federal government.

mark given

I was in there; one of a handfull of white people. It's all true. People will never believe that experience. You would have thought you were in some south american hell hole...they should wipe new orleans off the face of the map; the most corrupt, satan controlled place in america. I dont know how them judges, cops, wardens, so called deputy's sleep at night,,,,,and when the do I'll be praying their soul to hell!! all of them.

Nay

Hi, I am from NOLA and creating a documentary in Feb 2007 around these issues, namely, the injustices of the prison system, specifically during Katrina in NO. If you or someone you know is interested in being interviewed, were in OPP for a misdemeanor, please get in touch. This will be used for educational purposes at a grassroots level, and will ask some hard questions in the hope to shed some light on the issue and bring justice.

Robert Rielly

I just did 11 days in the Oleans Parish Prison... And I tell you a year after the strom that nothing still has changed. I am from NC was in NO working when I was arrest for a charge in NC. After beening in this lock up I can tell you I will never want to go to NO ever again. The gaurds at the prison are abusive and the prison is a inhumane place for anybody to locked up. I am going to file a law suit against the City of New Orleans and the Sheriff of Orleans Parish.

Jim a very PISSED OFF citizen who BELIEVES IN THE PRESS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I am a 42 yr old contractor who MOVED my family here to help rebuild New Orleans after the most horrific site I have ever seen in my life. (no by nature I am not a storm chaser have only built new)started out wanting to help with re-building but have not as of yet. Anyways I was arrested on an out of state warrant which was resended within 36 hours of my stay at OPP. I could probably get a short book deal on this one if I was a writer on the horrific conditions. ( One of those times I wish I would have had by Hi-tec cell phone, ( as 2 other guys smuggled in, some how to the holding cell of 300sqft cell we occupied with about 85 men last count!) I would have left the Vietnam prison compound and went to CNN! I believe someone quoted above that everyone in the place was a liar due to there status of being arrested and that everyone in a guard uniform () told the truth. There are some good OFFICERS in OPP who are fair and just there to do there jobs, some were really helpful in processing my release. But to stand by and witness the in humaine un-sanitary conditions that were in this place.....hmmmmmmm 1st cell 300sqft-85men-Toilet overflowing with piss and shit/no water, no place to sit and if you did, well you picture it. Water jug was outside the cell in sight but not in for HOURS. I recieved water after being there from 8am to finally getting a drink at 10:30pm when I was booked HMMMMMMM (not good) 85men was last count, they continued putting people in till it was up against the doors(food-balogna sandwhich not sure which roach coach that came off of but was stale) I know jails not supposed to be the Holiday Inn but animals at the humaine society have better conditions before being sentenced!!!!!! As the extra souls were put in to the cell people were being threated with more charges if they didnt SHUT UP I believe was the term. All types of arrested people were placed in these cells from tresspass, drunk, warrants, gang/bangers, possesion, murder, and probably other assorted instances. I know I heard a woman screaming she wanted an attorney now. (Ladies and Gentlemen they make cameras micro enough to hide because Ive read about a company who makes them.) again 2 guys smuggled theres in and were using them to call out! It got worse we were moved about 11pm to a 2 room cell with 3 toilets overflowing with crap and piss, with as many people who were in there and brought in the next morning and placed that were from other floors in the facility, ranging from career criminals to off course us waiting. ( trust me my first letter to you guys was longer and more pissed off) this holding tank as well did not have water until later in the day. Food was outside the cell but not brought in we were moved again to somewher else. Even in jail NOT CONVICTED or CONVICTED you HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS. Everyone was treated the same all right,,,,,Lower than the stuff that was in the toilets. The stories I heard in the MEDIA I didnt believe,I do now.........................................

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