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Greyhound Bus complains about New Orleans jail name
Reuters ^
| 9/12/05
| Reuters
Posted on 09/12/2005 5:38:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Greyhound Bus Lines complained to Louisiana's prisons department to stop referring to a temporary New Orleans jail, that was once its bus station, as Camp Greyhound, a prisons official said on Monday.
The Greyhound bus station in New Orleans was converted into a makeshift jail by police trying to restore law and order in a city rife with crime and lawlessness in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit.
"Greyhound called us on Friday and asked us not to refer to it as Camp Greyhound anymore," Pam Laborde, communications director of Louisiana's department of corrections told a new conference.
Laborde said the jail would now be known as Angola South.
Those held in the temporary jail are not only criminals that took part in the crime spree after the hurricane, but also prisoners from the city's Angola prison -- America's largest maximum-security prison notorious for its hardened criminals and tough guards.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angola; greyhound; katrina; neworleansjail
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Let me see if I've got this straight:
New Orleans has a prison, which based on their population must have a majority of black inmates, named
ANGOLA?! And they have the nerve to call Bush a racist?!
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:38:57 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
To: wagglebee
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:42:19 PM PDT
by
CindyDawg
To: wagglebee
Close.
The Prison named Angola is actually near the Mississippi river where it meets the State of Mississippi about 100 miles north-east of New Orleans.
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:44:36 PM PDT
by
lormand
(George W. Bush is saving your ass, whether you like it or not.)
To: lormand
...make that north-west of New Orleans
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:46:23 PM PDT
by
lormand
(George W. Bush is saving your ass, whether you like it or not.)
To: wagglebee
Let's call it 'Club Nagin,' or maybe 'Blancoville...'
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:47:05 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: wagglebee
Angola is the name of the state pen and is located in Angola, La.
It's a name the inmates can relate to.
Angola Penitentiary
To: wagglebee
""Greyhound called us on Friday and asked us not to refer to it as Camp Greyhound anymore," Pam Laborde, communications director of Louisiana's department of corrections told a new conference.
Laborde said the jail would now be known as Angola South."
This reminds me of the time that Norm McDonald said on Weekend Update that the Cleveland Indians had caved in to pressure from Native American groups and had changed their team nickname. They would henceforth be known as the Drunken Indians. "That's even worse, in a way."
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:49:16 PM PDT
by
AuH2ORepublican
(http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/)
To: wagglebee
In high school, they took us to the prison as part of civics or something. We saw the electric chair among basic prison stuff (no soap-on-the-roap moments).
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:52:06 PM PDT
by
lormand
(George W. Bush is saving your ass, whether you like it or not.)
To: wagglebee
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I don't hear the greyhounds complaining.
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posted on
09/12/2005 5:53:00 PM PDT
by
Sarcastic1
(Don't make me adverb verb you,you adjective noun!)
To: wagglebee
when a bus complains you know its series
To: wagglebee
The Prison has had that name for a very long time. If the folks at Greyhound don't like it, that's their Tough Sh*t.
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:09:34 PM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
To: wagglebee
I think Nagin is just trying to get back at them because they didn't send any Greyhounds for him to evacuate with. Instead, he was stuck with useless school buses. (Of course, they were useless because he didn't want to use them, but who cares about details...RIGHT?)
To: wagglebee
Camp Nagin. Notin but Bus!
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:18:35 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: wagglebee
Hey Nagin. Yer Greyhounds are here, and they're pissed!
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:23:42 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Its only funny till someone gets hurt, Then its HILARIOUS.)
To: wagglebee
Camp Gray Matter -- 'caus of all the Einsteins therein.
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:25:04 PM PDT
by
Shazbot29
(Trolling member of the DU Activist Corps!)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:27:17 PM PDT
by
Hattie
To: wagglebee
Don't prisons usually give prisoners upon a release a bus ticket so they can get home?
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:30:34 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(I support the firemen, but not their cause.)
To: Shazbot29
Camp Gray Matter -- 'caus of all the Einsteins therein.I resemble that remark!
To: wagglebee
If there are looters among the prisoners, call it Camp Get Mo'.
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posted on
09/12/2005 6:32:51 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: wagglebee
"Abu Ghraib" has a nice ring to it...
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