Greyhound "Jail" in NOLA
Thought I would pass this information along, which came to me from my professor: according to a Yahoo article written by Mark Egan on Tuesday, September 6th, NO officials have set up a "temporary jail" at a Greyhound Bus terminal in New Orleans. The men who are being confined--and this is really no big surprise--are almost all African American, between the ages of 18 and 35 and are being guarded by "heavily armed officers from Angola State Penitentiary." The plan is to move them from the bus station to "some place" where they will "stand trial via videoconference with a judge in Baton Rouge."
The article says there is an attempted murder suspect and rapist among them, but that most of dozens of men being held are there for looting.
O the ingenuity of a video conference; the hard work, time, effort and money being spent to make looters pay for their "crimes," which, considering the horrendous and desperate conditions surely can be nothing more than attempts at survival.
Why are non-violent acts being criminalized? What so easily (with as much ease as it took to set up a video conference courtroom) could be humane and compassionate aid is being militarized.
Why? Why?
Is part of the aid money that is being sent to NOLA being funnelled to pay for things like makeshift jails and the salaries of notoriously brutal C.O.s?
It makes me sick to my stomach.
The article says there is an attempted murder suspect and rapist among them, but that most of dozens of men being held are there for looting.
O the ingenuity of a video conference; the hard work, time, effort and money being spent to make looters pay for their "crimes," which, considering the horrendous and desperate conditions surely can be nothing more than attempts at survival.
Why are non-violent acts being criminalized? What so easily (with as much ease as it took to set up a video conference courtroom) could be humane and compassionate aid is being militarized.
Why? Why?
Is part of the aid money that is being sent to NOLA being funnelled to pay for things like makeshift jails and the salaries of notoriously brutal C.O.s?
It makes me sick to my stomach.
posted by Anonymous at 2:39 PM
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It makes me sick, too. Why were the first national troops sent to NOLA to deal with looters and not to bring food and water and a way out for the people stranded there?
We are living in a society that has become oriented to crime and punishment rather than to need and support. It's disgusting, scary, and nauseating.
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