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    Mercenary ChefAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 4:46pm

    Retaliation for the strike?

    I don't like jumping to conclusions, but based on SC's history with their prisons, as well as general pettiness of 'corrections' people, I'm not ruling it out.

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      forgetMercenary Chef
      9/13/18 5:48pm

      Nope, business as usual. Laziness, stupidity. A belief that the people behind the bars are subhuman, and you’re a hero: that’s a required answer to pass any CO test. And sadism, that’s a pretty intrinsic ingredient to the whole gumbo, the disposition to take pleasure in cruelty.

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      Mercenary Chefforget
      9/13/18 5:58pm

      That was my second guess.

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    forgetAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 5:37pm

    “In the past, it’s been safer to leave them there,” he said.

    For whom?

    A prison sentence does not include slowly drowning inside a cage, or even worrying about it.

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      bananaforget
      9/13/18 6:00pm

      That’s what I was wondering. How are you transporting prisoners in a way that’s dangerous for anyone? Maybe you need to have a better system...

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    skipsthebossAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 3:58pm

    But while South Carolina has ordered a mandatory evacuation for the entire state, there is one population officials seem content to let be—even though they’re in the direct path of the storm: its prison population.

    as other prisons have opted to evacuate their inmates, like the Palmer Pre-Release Center in Florence County, S.C., which lies outside of a mandatory evacuation zone.

    If there is a mandatory order for the entire state, then how could Florence County (which is in SC) be outside the evacuation area?

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      Hanoumatoiskipstheboss
      9/13/18 6:56pm

      Seems it was a mistake in the original post, it now reads entire coast

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      skipsthebossHanoumatoi
      9/13/18 7:23pm

      I figured. That was my way of pointing it out to the writer. A little snark goes a long way. 

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    JustinAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 3:35pm

    Didn’t I recall this being significant plot points of both “Treme” and “Queen Sugar”?

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      rusholmeruffianJustin
      9/13/18 4:27pm

      Also Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, the existence of which is still something of a fever dream.

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    iceman295Anne Branigin
    9/13/18 3:36pm

    Where do they evacuate prisoners to typically?

    Do they spread them around to other prisons? I can’t imagine they can construct a even semi secure temporary prison in a short period of time...I get that the prisoners are the responsibility of the state, and should be protected,  but where can you put a state's worth of prisoners in an already overcrowded system?

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      Raineyb1013iceman295
      9/13/18 6:26pm

      That is not the prisoner’s problem and shouldn’t be put on them by the state by merely abandoning them to the dangers of a hurricane. If you lock someone up you’re responsible for their well being period. You don’t get to decide that their lives aren’t worth protecting from natural disaster. All those motherfuckers should be facing prison time for any deaths that occur in those prisons.

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      PaulMooneysTongueiceman295
      9/13/18 6:40pm

      Oh I imagine that among the vast complex of the prison industry there are quite a few private prisons who would love to fill a few beds, gain more federal funding for the final 2018 quarter and heck even fill a few positions  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Cause MAGA. 

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    Minimum MausAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 3:58pm

    Treat prisoners like human beings? I’m pretty sure that’s considered commie talk in South Carolina.

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      imperatorvultMinimum Maus
      9/14/18 8:37am

      As a native I can confirm that yeah that’s the general view. (White) People down here tend to say shit like “if you don’t want to go to jail don’t commit crimes” while ignoring all the other factors that end up putting people in jail (like racial sentencing disparity).

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    THE DARK ONEAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 4:10pm

    wouldnt prisons be the safest place to be during a hurricane?

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      Submarines Made Me GayTHE DARK ONE
      9/13/18 4:13pm

      Depends purely on how they’re built. There are a few prisons in florida i worked construction in when i was younger. They are “hurricane proof” but the prison is not a multi-level building so if flooding happened they’re fucked.

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      Bob LoblawTHE DARK ONE
      9/13/18 4:17pm

      Yeah, I mean, who wouldn’t want to be trapped in a tiny room as water rushes in?

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    Tool of the MatriarchyAnne Branigin
    9/14/18 5:43am

    ...essential staff will be required to stay with the inmates during the storm. Any guards scheduled to work during Hurricane Florence will have to report for work.

    So prison staff are in a mandatory evacuation area...but have to report to work...because the prison system hasn’t bothered to evacuate the prisoners from the mandatory evacuation area...and the state government assumes everyone will be OK with this. Got it.

    This is just one reason you need fucking unions, America.

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    BiturbowagonAnne Branigin
    9/13/18 10:22pm

    In general, our country’s penal system is an embarrassment.

    This, doubly so. 

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