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Lessons from Past Disasters: Criminal Justice Response to COVID-19

COVID-19 is new, but many of the problems it is causing in the criminal justice system are problems we have seen before. After Hurricane Katrina, several jails had to be evacuated, causing overcrowding at other facilities. At the same time, arrests continued, even as many courts, including the Louisiana Supreme Court, closed for extended periods. The situation left advocates scrambling to seek release for pretrial detainees, low-level offenders, and older, more vulnerable offenders, while also coping with personal losses, office closures and other impacts of the storm. Advocates who worked through talk about the lessons they learned from Hurricane Katrina and what they think it should teach us about how to respond to COVID-19, as well as how to address the aftermath of the pandemic when it, at last, subsides. Panelists include: Derwyn Bunton, Chief District Defender, Orleans Parish Public Defender's Office, New Orleans, Louisiana Honorable Arthur L. Hunter, Presiding Judge, Orleans Criminal District Court (Ret.) Katherine Maris Mattes, Senior Professor of the Practice & Director, Criminal Justice Clinic, Tulane University Law School Pamela R. Metzger (Moderator), Professor of Law & Director, Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, Southern Methodist Unversity Dedman School of Law