>I learned yesterday from a Federal law clerk in the Southern District Court
>that when Battery Park was evacuated on September 11, they cleared everyone
>out except the inmates at the Manhattan Correctional Center which is only
>several blocks from the WTC. Some of the inmates there are those who have
>not even had a trial--those who can't afford bail or are held there without
>bail for pre-trial hearings. The prisoners were placed in "locked-down," and
>presumably many of the guards left fearing their own lives. Many of these
>prisoners, I assume, are supposedly those who are afforded the presumption
>of innocence in theory, but in reality were faced with a de facto death
>penalty. Thankfully, none of the inmates were injured as far as I know.