The Custody of Inmates

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This paper reviews the challenges that housing and supervising prison inmates present to correctional facilities and to those who work in them. Specifically, the paper looks at the practical difficulties of providing some semblance of security and protection in a time of crisis, and it also examines the (possible) legal repercussions flowing from a natural disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. The paper concludes that prison officials cannot be expected to maintain order and decorum in a crisis situation when they have been poorly trained and/or given limited supplies.

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"The Custody of Inmates during Hurricane Katrina The events that unfolded between August 27 and September 1, 2005 as Katrina rolled ashore along the Gulf coast cannot easily be dismissed. For correctional facilities, the storm over-burdened their resources and placed staff in an untenable position. The following paper will examine the challenges that correctional staff faced in this crisis, both from a practical stand-point and also, in its aftermath, from a legal stand-point. As should become apparent, training and proper evacuation and preparedness procedures could all have spared the affected facilities the trauma they experienced during the storm. With this in mind, it is to a discussion of this important topic that this paper now turns. The practical challenges presented to correctional facilities in a situation such as the Katrina disaster are many."

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