Posts Tagged ‘hurricane irene’
A Few More Links on Prison/Jail Emergency Preparedness
Sociological Images has two posts related to yesterday’s discussion about Hurricane Irene and Rikers Island:
- New York Prisoners Left in the Path of Hurricane Irene
- The Fate of Prisoners During Hurricane Katrina
And the Constitutional Law Blog discusses the legal implications of prison emergency planning here.
Rikers Island and Irene
A flurry of concern on Twitter yesterday & today about Bloomberg’s announcement that Rikers Island would not be evacuated as Hurricane Irene headed towards NYC. [Full story after the jump.] Read the rest of this entry »
