South Carolina failed to evacuate a prison. Inmates are now sitting ducks in Hurricane Florence’s path.

Sep 14 2018 by VICE News

Inmates at MacDougall Correctional, a medium-security prison in Dorchester County, South Carolina, are scared. The facility is the only one in the state under mandatory evacuation order — one that prison officials and the governor decided not to abide by.

“You’re locked in a concrete box. Windows bolted, no way out except if a person turns the key,” a spokesperson for Jailhouse Lawyers Speak told VICE News. “We have little faith in guards remaining on post if the water comes in...

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