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.”

  • @PugJesus
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    1541 month ago

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

    • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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      More evidence every one of the people making these calls should hope hell is indeed make believe, because eternal damnation would surely be coming for all of them. DeSatan not demanding they be moved also shows all his supporters are now minions of satan.

  • IninewCrow
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    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.

  • furzegulo1312
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    651 month ago

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

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

    • ALQ
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      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.

  • Flying Squid
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    In sane countries, prisons are rehabilitative, not punitive.

  • @[email protected]
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    How much do you want to bet that they don’t even have a contingency plan to evacuate and secure their inmate population?

    • @Theoriginalthon
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      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
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    451 month ago

    CONGRATULATIONS PENAL PALS!

    YOUR SENTENCES HAVE BEEN UPGRADED!

  • @[email protected]
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    251 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.

  • @j4k3
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    131 month ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    131 month ago

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

    • @hate2bme
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      What are workers rights?

    • Flying Squid
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      We’d need a constitutional amendment to say they aren’t slaves first.

    • @Apeman42
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      “Pleased to meet ya Lloyd! Hope you guessed my name.”