AdoraBlue
I've been known to be a little too "woo-woo."
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Yes, I know. I was here.
I remember when Rita made landfall very well because we had hoped to return home from hurrication that day, but postponed our return to New Orleans due to the approaching sister storm.
The report I linked contains Louisiana DOC daily "mssage points" from 09/04/05-11/06/05. As Rita approached, Phelps CC (DeQuincy) housed 160 Katrina inmate evacuees. According to the bulletin for 09/23/05, they were part of the 1758 inmates relocated to other facilities in anticipation of Rita. Local jails took in 1567 of them, and 191 went to state facilities. I was reading backwards chronologically last night and mistakenly posted that the inmates were moved after the storm (Rita) damaged Phelps. (People were either coming or going; or going and coming, and then going someplace else. It's all blurs together in my mind.) Regardless, because the date of his relocation has been reported as 09/22-23/05, the point of my post was to suggest BSL's relocation from DeQuincy to Avoyelles Parish might have been storm related, and not for the purpose of commencing a re-entry program as some have speculated.
Maybe, maybe not. Just trying to put it all together.
http://www.nola.com/katrina/blancodocs/Dept_Timelines_Chronology_11.pdf
Thanks Bessie for the link, don't have time to peruse it right now but will save it for later. Your analysis of it makes perfect sense, though, because all "routine" transfers would have been suspended at that time due to the chaos and destruction wrought by Katrina and the approaching (and often forgotten) Rita, which was as destructive as K but fortunately did not affect any cities as large as NOLA. I don't mean to imply that the communities affected by Rita were not as devastated as NOLA/MS, just that it did strike an area generally less populous, and that people heeded the evacuation orders. That entire September are etched in my mind and my only direct effect was that we were without power for a week following Rita and it was HOT! Thank God Louisianans are resilient people and have come back from those tragedies better than ever (I believe).
One other point to think about in the possibility of tracking BSL's offshore hitches since 2008 is any evacuations of rigs due to hurricanes, such as Gustav, Ike, etc. Of course, that info would have to be correlated by someone (LE, hopefully) who could gain access to his employment records.