A Prison Cover up During Hurricane Rita. Wednesday, March 5, 2. As Hurricane Rita thundered towards him, Garrett Deetz lay terrified and confused on his bunk, locked up inside a cell at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont. For the past two days, he and about 1,3. Jefferson County followed a mandatory evacuation order and fled their homes in anticipation of one of the fiercest storms in American history. The images of destruction and suffering in New Orleans that played over and over on national TV in the wake of Hurricane Katrina less than a month earlier were still fresh in Deetzs mind. And now Rita, which weather experts were touting as even more intense, with winds blasting across the Gulf of Mexico at 1. Movie Trailers Animal Armageddon Series' title='Movie Trailers Animal Armageddon Series' />Movie Trailers Animal Armageddon VideosThe Tomatometer rating based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics is a trusted measurement of movie and TV. 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Suddenly, the lights inside Deetzs cell flickered and went completely dark as he heard the air conditioning system grind to a halt. All power was gone. Deetzs cellmate had just taken a bowel movement, but the toilet would not flush. The plumbing was shot. A garbage bag held the only drinking water available. Guards had handed out the plastic bags before the storm, telling inmates to fill them with tap water in case the hurricane knocked out the sewer and water systems. There wasnt a scrap of food in Deetzs cell. At the bottom corners of the only window in the third floor cell, water was streaming in not enough to cause flooding, but enough so that everything in the room including Deetzs mattress, sheets and clothes was getting soaked. The window was shaking hard and you could hear the wind, says Deetz. Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between. The Kentucky Fried Movie is a 1977 independently made American anthology comedy film, produced by Kim Jorgensen, Larry Kostroff, and Robert K. Weiss and directed by. Even the walls were shaking. It was terrifying. I thought the window was going to blow out and the water was going to come in and we were going to die in our cell. After the storm, Deetz heard inmates crying out for help. But no one, he says, was there to answer. Deetz peered out his window, and saw nothing but the devastated landscape. It was like an Armageddon movie, he says. I remember thinking, Beaumont is gone. There is no Beaumont. And were stuck in this cell, with bars and a steel door. What do we do That was the thing that scared me the most. Nothing compares to that feeling of looking out and not seeing anyone anywhere. Meanwhile, Deetzs mother, Judith, was frantically phoning the prison to find out if her son was okay. She says it took her several tries to get someone to answer, but finally an official taking calls told her the inmates had all been moved out before the hurricane hit. Judith felt relieved. And she was not alone. Around the same time, many wives, mothers and loved ones desperate for news were calling a Federal Bureau of Prisons information line. They say operators told them that though the inmates had not been evacuated, they were assured that everyone was safe and well cared for. Newspapers reported the same story. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Mike Truman, for instance, told the Houston Chronicle four days after the storm that inmates had portable toilets and were getting two hot meals and one cold meal a day. But now, following a Houston Press investigation, new details are emerging that suggest none of that was true at the maxium security prison. According to Deetz and other inmates, conditions in the days and weeks following Hurricane Rita were medieval. As temperatures hovered around 1. Deetz and his cellmate were locked up for weeks without any ventilation or escape from the rising tide of urine and feces accumulating in their cell. For two days, they did not receive food, and when supplies finally began to trickle in, there was nothing but peanut butter sandwiches on moldy bread and stale potato chips. Deetz claims he did not get a hot meal for about a month. The small bottles of water handed out were simply not enough to combat the intense dehydration Deetz suffered as he sweat uncontrollably. The paint on the walls began to peel off, and prisoners begging for help and screaming out for someone to open their food slots so they could get some air had trouble breathing due to the humidity. We were helpless, says Deetz. It was the worst thing Ive ever been through my entire life. Asked to respond to allegations in this story, Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Traci Billingsley in Washington, D. C., and Deborah Denham, executive assistant at the South Central Regional Office in Dallas, declined to comment, citing pending litigation. In all, scores of inmates including Deetz say they were deprived of nearly every basic human need for several weeks, including food, water, sleep, medicine, clean clothes, showers and flushing toilets. Independently, the president of the local chapter in Beaumont of the American Federation of Government Employees, who represents the federal corrections officers, backs up most of the inmates claims, telling the Houston Press that conditions inside the penitentiary after Rita were the worst hed ever endured and that the Bureau of Prisons was to blame. All the while, the outside world knew nothing of what was happening. Understandably, people believed what prison officials were reporting, that everyone was okay. Paperman Video Download. No one knew that inmates were suffering and that not everyone was receiving proper medical care. Even after the status quo had been restored, still no one knew, as prison officials did all they could to keep the conditions quiet by allegedly threatening inmates and discouraging them from seeking justice. But two years later, thanks to a class action lawsuit filed by an Ohio civil rights attorney on behalf of more than 4. USP Beaumont, all that is about to change. Attorney Norman Sirak is a bowling ball of a man with wispy, Einstein like gray hair. He works in Canton, Ohio, alongside his wife, who escaped from the Communist regime in Poland as a child, and his paralegal, who is an ex con. Sirak is a self described liberal and hippie who went to law school at American University in Washington, D. C., where he protested against the Vietnam War. For many years, Sirak made a healthy living working in the securities field, filing registrations for small companies. Then one day about seven years ago, a client of his who had gone to prison for securities fraud told Sirak about some problems he believed existed in the Ohio parole system. It was then that Siraks legal career took a turn. He filed a class action lawsuit against the states parole board, a case which he is still fighting and is preparing to submit to the U. S. Supreme Court. Sirak has also launched separate class action cases against the Pennsylvania parole board and the Texas parole board. In the Texas case, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed the case and Sirak is currently appealing that decision to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Finally I am doing what I think I was always meant to do, he says. It started out as just another day last August inside the cramped office where Sirak was working on his parole board cases when he opened up a letter from an inmate at Beaumont. The note was from Kelvin Andre Spotts, a prisoner inside the federal penitentiary, explaining how he had filed a pro se lawsuit on behalf of dozens of inmates concerning poor treatment and conditions during Hurricane Rita. A judge had denied class action status to Spottss case and now he was looking for an attorney to pick up the pieces. Left Behind Video 2. IMDb. Trivia. According to the Making of. Chelsea Noble Hattie, who is married to Kirk Cameron Buck, was reading the book in bed. Kirk was asleep, but Chelsea was so excited about the idea of turning this into a movie, she started slapping Kirk on the leg to wake him up, and said, I want to play the role of Hattie Kirk and Chelsea then started farming out the idea to find out who might produce the film. See more. When Carpathia shoots Stonegal and Cothran, he uses a semiautomatic pistol, which would normally automatically eject the cartridge casing upon discharge, in order to chamber the next round. 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