Well then, the two reporters who were there in the middle of NO, and saw the wave of men in orange jumpsuits flow into the streets and bang on their cars were wrong, I guess.
I've seen the conflicting reports, too. But I did read that a busload of prisoners have been delivered to the largest prison in LA. Maybe they figured the other prison couldn't absorb all of them, and just let the lower-level offenders go. (Didn't some city do that with lower-level offenders a couple of years ago because a federal judge ruled the prison was overpopulated and that was unconstitutional?)