Pacific Standard spoke with an inmate in Lee Correctional Institution as he and other prisoners prepared for the storm.
Prisoners in the hurricane’s path will not be evacuated—and many are outraged.
Some of the storm’s risks are not so obvious, from rivers of toxic waste to unevacuated prisons.
Multiple intense storms are moving across the Atlantic and the Pacific, with millions of people in their paths.
The state has bet against a megastorm for years, but now as Florence bears down on the state it could face a major money shortage to rebuild from the damage.
The hog industry is changing, but, as Hurricane Florence hits, history may be doomed to repeat itself.
Disasters like this one have been found to disproportionately affect low-income people and people of color.
