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Florida Counties Refuse to Evacuate Jails in Hurricane Milton Flood Zones
(theintercept.com)
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Break resistant glass with bars or wire and concrete or cinder block walls do make for a sturdy building that can handle a fair amount of hurricane.
The concern is flooding going to the worst-case scenario and the jail's elevation being low enough to drown inmates in their cells.
Exactly this. It becomes possible that inmates who are incarcerated for minor infractions face a death penalty due to prison mismanagement.
There’s no humanity in allowing even the worst offenders to inescapably drown in a cage.
Or are innocent, or have yet to even see any trial, so have no conviction (a disturbingly high percentage of people in jails and prisons fit those categories).
I love sharing this link because a lot of this information is little-known, and also the design is elegant: Incarceration in Real Numbers. Be warned, it will suck more of your time than you’ll realise.
Regardless, nobody should have to drown in a place specifically designed to prevent escape. That’s barbaric.