"If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die," Tampa's mayor said. But Florida's incarcerated residents have no choice. 21,000+ people are locked up in counties with mandatory evacuation orders, per @theappeal's analysis.
In September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, triggering mandatory evacuations in 20 counties and emergency declarations in 61 counties along its path. Despite a mandatory evacuation in Wakulla County, the populations of two state prisons and a county jail were not evacuated.
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