When record-breaking floodwaters inundated a Pensacola jail in April—sending clothes dryers floating and natural gas seeping into the building that was running on generator power—no outside agency had the authority to force county officials to move the 600 men and women locked inside.
“All day people were telling the (corrections officers) that they were smelling gas. People were drowsy and getting sick, throwing up from the heat and the gas and the smell from the restrooms,” inmate Samuel McCreary told The Associated Press in a recent telephone interview.
