Hurricane Michael, now a Category 4, is slated to be the worst hurricane to hit Florida in over 100 years and the the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) refuses to evacuate 15 state prisons in mandatory evacuation zones.
We need your help putting pressure on each state to ensure the horrors that happened at FCI Beaumont during Hurricane Harvey don’t happen again. This tactic proved effective just last month when North Carolina and Virginia evacuated prisons ahead of Hurricane Florence!
Demands-
- Immediate evacuation of all prisoners from every State Prison in the Mandatory Evacuation zone.
- Stockpiling of Water and Food at every facility that may be impacted by power outages.
Numbers to Call-
FDC Region 1 Director Angela Gordon ([email protected])
Phone – (850) 627-5511
FDC Region 2 Director Eric V. Hummel ([email protected])
Phone – (386) 496-6000
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Southeastern Regional Office- (678) 686-1200
No word on: FCI Marianna, FPC Pensacola, FCI Tallahassee
When you get a response use #EvacuateFLPrisoners and tweet @FightToxicPrisons & @iwoc_gnv! Numbers aren’t working? Tweet us with number updates too!
If you can, record the phone call and email it to us. If it turns out they’re lying, we’ll have voice-recorded evidence. (Email [email protected])
Also, we don’t trust ANY Department of Corrections. Per Jailhouse Lawyers Speak’s advice, “If you know any prisoners in this storm path, it’s important to tell them to fill up any containers or bags with water NOW!! Prisons are notorious for not giving adequate drinking water to prisoners if any at all after the water is contaminated.”
Still Have Energy? Tweet the link to this post to any journalists and news outlets you can think of!
List of Prisons That Haven’t Evacuated in Mandatory Evacuation Zones:
Bay County
Bay Correctional Facility
Citrus County
Citrus County Detention Facility
Dixie County
Cross City Corrections Department and East Unit
Gadsden County
Gadsden Correctional Facility
Quincy Annex
Gulf County
Gulf Correctional Institution Annex
Jackson County
Jackson County Corrections
Liberty Correctional Institution
Apalachee Correctional Institution, East Unit
Jefferson County
Jefferson Correctional Institution
- UPDATE 8:40am EST- The wife of a prisoner reports that “My husband is in Jefferson CI and they sandbagged all the entrances, they will leave the phones on all day today for them to keep in contact with us.” She is advising him to tell everyone he knows to fill up anything they can with water.
Levy County
Levy County Jail
Okaloosa County
Okaloosa Correctional Institution and Work Camp
Taylor County
Taylor Correctional Institution and Work Camp
Wakulla County
Wakulla Correctional Institution
Walton County
Walton Correctional Institution
Franklin County
Franklin County Jail Facility (Right on Coast) Phone: +1 850-670-8500
