[news] Gitmo on the Mississippi: "Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad"

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization "A Fighting Chance", has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me. "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Klan marching down our main street. But still, I've never seen anything like this."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/4289