Most correctional facilities either don’t have emergency evacuation plans or don’t use the ones they have during times of natural disasters—like hurricanes, tornadoes, fires and floods. During these disasters, incarcerated people are left to shelter-in-place, leaving them at extremely high risk for sitting in sewage water, without power, electricity or food. Worse yet, they have no access to life-saving medications, such as  insulin, meds for high blood pressure, seizures and the like.

We need allies to increase public support to combat this decades-old policy of leaving incarcerated people at such high risk for losing their lives under extreme conditions.