Guards are also expected to remain inside the prison when the storm hits.
Reportedly, the jail has stocked up on supplies and sandbags. Should it flood, prisoners will be moved to the top floor of the building.
UNILAD have approached Manatee County Sheriff and Jodie Fiske for additional comment.
Hurricane Milton is expected to be so strong that experts are said to be considering creating a new category for it.
Category five hurricanes are storms with winds that are ‘157 mph or higher (252 km/h or higher)’, but on Monday Hurricane Milton reached winds of 180mph.
Retired federal scientist and science advisor Jim Kossin, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory climate scientist Michael Wehner released a paper earlier this year where they discussed a ‘hypothetical category six’ category with a minimum threshold of 192 mph.
Elsewhere, they noted that ‘a number of recent storms have already achieved this hypothetical category six intensity, and based on multiple independent lines of evidence examining the highest simulated and potential peak wind speeds, more such storms are projected as the climate continues to warm’.
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