Official: Prisoners Riot, Take Hostages in New Orleans

Children Reportedly Among Those Held Captive







- Inmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and are now holding hostages, a prison commissioner told ABC News affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge, La.

Orleans Parish Prison Commissioner Oliver Thomas reported the incident to WBRZ.

A deputy at Orleans Parish Prison, his wife and their four children have been taken hostage by rioting prisoners after riding out Hurricane Katrina inside the jail building, according to WBRZ.

Officials are expected to hold a press conference regarding the riots at 9 p.m. ET. A woman interviewed by WBRZ said her son, a deputy at the prison whose family is among the hostages, told her that many of the prisoners have fashioned homemade weapons. Her son had brought his family there hoping they would be safe during the storm.
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woah, I wonder if those were the same ones i saw sitting on a road outside the prison on tv earlier...it was flooded so they had led them out and were surrounding them with guards.

The shit sure is out of control.

 

I just read that the attempts to plug the levee are being abandoned and 9 more feet are expected soon...hope thats media hype.....

 

That's what I was thinking...I saw that on TV earlier. It very well could be those same prisoners.

 

http://www.wwltv.com/#9morefeetofwater

 

from what I heard there are 3700 reservists coming tomorrow to drop in cement barriers and giant sandbags...but tonight its still wide open.

 

i hope they at least get to slowly torture and kill the warden and his whole family before they all drowned ....

 

earlier I heard about 3000 lb. sandbags...that was 8 hours ago at least

 

i just love death and destruction thats not caused by war ....its so refreshing ....

 

what the fuck?
my local news said nothing of this

it's so fucked up how in the dark they keep us

 

i think sept 1st should be prison riot day international ....and sept 2nd world general strike day ,,,,and the third kill every yuppie day ....

 

about Katrina?

 

would you report everything and in affect encourage mass panic?

 

no, the prisoner shit

 

oh, gotcha.

 

damn
right before I clicked this this time, I looked over and saw what board this was in....

I really gotta start checking that out
I felt like an ass before I even read your reply, I was figurin' you were gonna keep goin with it, and I was tryin to decide if I would humor you and drag it on without you knowing that I knew or if I would admit I jsut realized it
and fuck man, you should have kept going with it, this could have got interesting

 

sorry crummy is not up to par in his playfulness today.....kinda distracted.....

 

by what?

 

In 26 hours I deploy for 6 months....... a little under 20 till I have to report to the ship.

 

I think he thinks you are bullshitting him because this is in the pure bull forum, but I know you aren't comp savvy enough to hack the abc news website.