It wasn’t as if the Tar Heel state didn’t see Hurricane Helene coming. On Sept. 25, one day before Helene stormed ashore, ...

As Helene traveled northward, 2,000 incarcerated people were evacuated from North Carolina prisons—only after local water and power sources were damaged.

Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans ...

Hurricanes have a long and distinguished history of impacting U.S. elections. Special and primary elections held in the late ...

During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Orleans Parish Prison – the New Orleans city jail – was not evacuated, even though it was in a mandatory evacuation zone. Some incarcerated adults and youth ...

The lessons from these major disruptions offer businesses insights regarding resilience, sustainability, and stakeholder collaboration. Multi-layered resilience is essential for reducing future risk ...

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After Hurricane Katrina, some 1,100 incarcerated people ... Being left behind during an evacuation is traumatic for incarcerated people. One participant in our study described being told that ...

As billion-dollar disasters like hurricanes Helene and Milton grow more common, many blame global warming. Others say disasters are more expensive because there is more to destroy.