I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back

This is about the failed evacuation of the Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricaine Katrina.

Overview

I WON'T DROWN... began with an invitation to travel to New Orleans as part of a delegation to investigate what actually happened at the Orleans Parish Prison during and after Hurricane Katrina. What came up was not only a botched and deadly evacuation of the prison, but a broader climate of racial tension and brutality throughout the local and Federal response to the disaster, where the population was divided into survivors and looters along lines of race and class.