Two years after a pair of Kings County prisons narrowly avoided catastrophic flooding, a state audit released last week now argues those prisons would not have been prepared to evacuate quickly. In fact, the audit argued that most prisons – in addition to California State Prison, Corcoran, and the nearby Substance Abuse Treatment Facility – could not fully evacuate their incarcerated populations within three days.
link to article: Floods exposed weaknesses in California prisons’ emergency plans. They still aren’t ready – CalMatters