Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm.
“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.
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.
In South Carolina, at least two prisons were not evacuated during Hurricane Florence in 2018.
Other Florida jails and prisons have also said they will not evacuate during Milton.
Reimer told 10 Tampa Bay: “When my son was sentenced, he was not given a death sentence,” she said. »
