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submitted 2 years ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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 151 points 2 years ago

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

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 51 points 2 years ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes, but they are valuable slave labor

[-] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

Better than drowning, probably

[-] billbasher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah for sure I would rather be shot

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I wonder how many guards stayed behind

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 63 points 2 years ago

In sane countries, prisons are rehabilitative, not punitive.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago
[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yes, no need to repeat your comment, everyone can see it.

He meant "what do you mean?"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Believe it or not, they're right. But it has nothing to do with how those countries treat their people considering they found that people from India and African countries were the ones who felt that the voices were positive.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
[-] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

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

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years 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.

[-] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 54 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 47 points 2 years ago

CONGRATULATIONS PENAL PALS!

YOUR SENTENCES HAVE BEEN UPGRADED!

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

You mean reduced?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 years 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.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Anyone ever read The Stand?

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

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

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