9.01.2005

Superdome: Haven Quickly Becomes an Ordeal - New York Times

Once inside the dome, refugees were told that for their own safety they could not leave - the flood waters climbed four feet up the walls outside - and many likened the shelter to a prison.

Michael Childs, 45 and a housepainter, went a step further.

"It's worse than a prison," said Mr. Childs, who knew something about the subject, having spent three months in the Orleans Parish Prison on a drunken-driving charge. "In prison you have a place to urinate, a place for other bathroom needs. Here you get no water, no toilets, no lights. You get all that in prison."


Lord have mercy!

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