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Ike Evacuations

The weather has become a bigger story than usual for the Texas justice system in 2008. Some private prisons - especially the tent city down in Raymondville created to house immigration detainees - haven't yet gotten over damage from Hurricane Dolly, Texas Prison Bidness reports. Even so, Hurricane Ike may follow Dolly and hit land by this weekend on the Texas Gulf Coast. All accounts depict the storm's path as highly erratic. Ike enters the Gulf of Mexico leaving jail-related debacles among other catastrophers in its Caribbean wake. In the Turks and Caicos, "The prison also suffered significant damages, resulting in crammed conditions." Eighty people died in Cuba, so the roof torn off a prison there was likely the least of their worries. (In a minor postive note in the wake of Cuba's tragedy, President Bush is considering whether to temporarily lift the decades-long embargo against the storm-wracked island nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).