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ACLU presents:
Katrina - Broken Promises
Ashley:
And then when I was about ready to go to court, the storm came. So , I couldn't go to court.
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ASHLEY WAS TAKEN TO AN ADULT PRISON AND ABANDONED THERE.
The people that were on guard there, up and left us. I guess they wasn't worried about
us. The electric and everything went out; but then the water busted the gates open and
then it was like to my stomach when we was up in there. Because, we stood in there for
like three days with nothing to drink and nothing to eat and we couldn't sit nowhere.
I was feeling dehydrated. I was feeling dizzy. I was saying that I was feeling like I was
about to die. Because without food and water--you got to have that to survive. And, we didn't
have none of that. That was the only way we would have got out. Just because a guy took
one of the guards guns to go get help for us. And, when they went to get help, they
took a mattress and floated all the way to the bridge to go get help. And then they can
back with a boat. It was up to my chin. It was just horrible. The prisoners helped us
to walk in the water. Because I was scared. Because I don't know how to swim and I was
scared to walk anywhere. I might sink. I thought I was going to drown. I started crying then.
The prisoners put us on a boat, out on a boat and got us to the bridge. I expected the guards
to help us at least to get out of there, but they didn't. No, it wasn't the guards, it
was the prisoners that helped us get out. If we would have still been there, we would
have been drowned.
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