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Gotta rtfa to get the full context.
There are still systemic problems here, but it's not like they just locked everyone on the ground floor and peaced-out, as the headline made me think.
Edit: I just want to add that the rest of the article goes even deeper in, in my opinion, undoing my outrage induced from the headline. It talks about facilities being weather-ready and built on higher ground, it mentions procedures for ones that aren't, it consults a former FEMA official....
There was an article just days or a week ago about prisoners who were stuck in cells that were flooded and toilets that didn't work and backed up into their cells for days following Helene.
"Plenty of staff" I'm calling bullshit right there. I don't work corrections but I used to work forensic psych and they were the only part of that institutional system with worse staffing than us.
If inmates die, will the bosses be thrown in prison? That is the simple test. If they believe their forts are secure, they will take responsibility in advance... But of course they didn't. They never will. Prisoners have no value to them.
It isn't even just the prisoners, they're willing to put the workers in danger too.
Ohh they are going up a floor, what could possibly go wrong? It is only some hurricane, nothing special.
Fuck this shit and this disgusting prison system. How obvious can they be about not seeing inmates as humans?