"The prisoners inside the Orleans Parish Prison suffered some of the worst horrors of Hurricane Katrina," said Eric Balaban, a staff attorney for the National Prison Project. "Because society views ...

The Orleans Parish Prison fell into chaos in the five days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on August 29. As the water rose in the prison buildings, deputies deserted en masse, leaving ...

What's True After Hurricane Katrina, many inmates at OPP in New Orleans reported being stuck in cells flooded with chest-high water, and being left without food or water for days at a time while ...

As he tells it, the civic progress since Katrina is tangible. For instance, the Orleans Parish jail had nearly 7,000 prisoners the day Katrina hit.

He has denied, however, that prisoners were not fed. He said prisoners, his staff and their families had food from the prison, plus MREs supplied by the military.

During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Orleans Parish Prison chose not to evacuate its approximately 6,500 inmates. When the levees broke, many cells flooded.

Environment Feature August 26, 2010 Reconstructing the Story of the Storm: Hurricane Katrina at Five How we remember Katrina is how we’ll prepare for future disasters. Getting the story straight ...

Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the US, causing more than 2,000 deaths and catastrophic flooding and wind damage.

This August, Brad Pitt and his charity “Make It Right,” agreed to a $20.5 million settlement to owners of faulty post-Katrina houses in the historically Black and low-income Lower Ninth Ward.

These are the 10 people who were the most influential when Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans Aug. 29, 2005.