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SC officials won’t evacuate prison ahead of hurricane.  (The State, 9/11/2018)

As nearly a million people hit the road before Hurricane Florence nears the coast, 934 inmates and as many as 119 prison staff were ordered to stay behind despite a mandatory evacuation. 

Despite an evacuation order encompassing the prison’s location in Jasper County issued Monday, S.C. Department of Corrections officials decided not to remove inmates at the Ridgeland Correctional Institution as of that afternoon, SCDC spokesman Dexter Lee said in an interview with The State. 

“Right now, we’re not in the process of moving inmates,” Lee said. “In the past, it’s been safer to leave them there.”