A Footnote on CORRECTIONS
Directed/Produced by Ashley Hunt
2006 / 30 Minutes

I WON'T DROWN… Grassroots organizations call for answers after the failed evacuation of the Orleans Parish Prison during Hurricane Katrina, the building of a makeshift prison behind the local bus depot, and the disappearing of family members to prisons around Louisiana or lost to the flood. Set within the larger abandonment, criminalization and brutality that characterized the state’s response, it also provokes a larger understanding of the hurricane as a man-made disaster, where lines of race and class drew out the decisions of saving property versus lives, of who is a “survivor” and who is a “looter,” who is saved and who’s left to drown.

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