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Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm.

Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path of the hurricane that was roaring towards it across the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, will not be evacuating, a representative of the jail told Newsweek on Tuesday.

The jail falls within the Zone A evacuation area, the outlet further reported. Those in Zone A could face a storm surge of up to 11ft and are supposed to be evacuated first, according to the Manatee county evacuation guide.

“We do not issue evacuation orders lightly,” said the Manatee county public safety director, Jodie Fiske, Newsweek reported. “Milton is anticipated to cause more storm surge than [Hurricane] Helene. So, if you stayed during Helene and got lucky, I would not press my luck with this particular system.”

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 154 points 1 month ago

In any civilized society, manslaughter or murder charges would be being prepared for whoever is in charge of this decision.

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 53 points 1 month ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, but they are valuable slave labor

[-] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

They would rather let 'em all drown and just top up their slave camps with a fresh batch afterward.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if the prisoners rebelled and started attacking guards and trying to break out.

If there's a high chance you're going to die in a hurricane ..... might as well take your chances and die trying to escape.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

Better than drowning, probably

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah for sure I would rather be shot

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I wonder how many guards stayed behind

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 month ago

i wish the hurricane takes ron desantis with it and throws him into the sea

[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

And then the hurricane can completely wipe out Mar a Lardo.

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Nah, he's definitely not going to put himself in any danger. If I controlled the weather, as suggested by morons, I'd direct it to him, but alas.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago

In sane countries, prisons are rehabilitative, not punitive.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

In the American south you may be switched to execution by act of oil industry

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[-] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago

The severity of this storm is likely due in part to climate change brought about by the oil industry.

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Makes sense. I was wondering if there was another layer I was missing

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

In other countries, schizophrenia causes positive imagery/voices instead of menacing figures and voices.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 55 points 1 month ago

How much do you want to bet that they don't even have a contingency plan to evacuate and secure their inmate population?

[-] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

That's the first thing I thought, got to get the maximum profit out of prisons, contingency planning costs money and it probably won't happen anyway...

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

CONGRATULATIONS PENAL PALS!

YOUR SENTENCES HAVE BEEN UPGRADED!

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago
[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

Randomized!

[-] some_guy 25 points 1 month ago

Why would anyone care about people who have been sent to prison? This is Florida, after all. They want to hurt and oppress as much as possible.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Let's reclassify prisoners as involuntary employees and then try this again with some worker's rights

[-] hate2bme@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

What are workers rights?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

We'd need a constitutional amendment to say they aren't slaves first.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

"Slavery is illegal," claims the crying man who said that Roe v Wade is settled law

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

DeSatan state strikes again. Heil Florida man and the WoP rats.

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Anyone ever read The Stand?

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

"Pleased to meet ya Lloyd! Hope you guessed my name."

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Yup. Thought of that right away when I first read this.

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