Quotable

"Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst. Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling."

Corinne Carey, researcher, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch

New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters (Human Rights Watch, 22-9-2005)

Somewhere along the way, we have lost our Humanity...