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What Advocates Are Saying About South Carolina's Refusal to Evacuate Prisoners in Hurricane Florence's Path

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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.
Prisons and jails charge inmates substantial portions of their annual wages for basic necessities.
Disasters like this one have been found to disproportionately affect low-income people and people of color.
A memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions alludes to a potential federal prison population boom.
Michelle Bachelet’s bold speech condemned the Trump administration’s family separation policy along with other human rights abuses.

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