Makeshift courthouse set up in New Orleans Amtrak station

DAVID HEINZMANN
Chicago Tribune

NEW ORLEANS - (KRT) - On the second floor of the shabby Amtrak station, in a cavernous old room with missing ceiling tiles and dingy green paint, a handful of tired but well-humored people in jeans and T-shirts sat around folding tables piled with scrounged office equipment. The recent scene was like any number of makeshift relief operations that have been set up in unlikely places all over New Orleans.

But then the doors at the rear of the room swung open and two guards herded 21 men in plastic handcuffs into the back corner. A few minutes later, the doors swung again, and a burly man with unkempt gray hair and a black robe draped over his arm strode in, bear-hugged a woman he hadn't seen since before Hurricane Katrina hit and called to order the 11:30 a.m. session of bond hearings for the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.

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