Despite being in evacuation zones, correctional facilities will keep thousands of residents on site
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“We do not issue evacuation orders lightly,” said Manatee county public safety director Jodie Fiske, Newsweek reported. “Milton is anticipated to cause more storm surge than Helene.
Multiple jails and prisons in hurricane-hit states have previously failed to evacuate incarcerated people during a natural disaster, despite being located in a mandatory evacuation zone.
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