After Antonio Ocampo, a day laborer, served a short sentence for simple battery last August, a judge ordered him released from the Orleans Parish Prison. Nearly 100 days later, he was still there.
For poor communities of color in the post-Katrina South—and all across America—citizenship isn't enough. Their real fight is for first-class citizenship.
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