One group that definitely needs an emergency preparedness plan, are those officials overseeing prisoners. It would be nothing short of a catastrophe to wait for an emergency to happen first before testing out written down plans. One Tennessee sheriff knows this best, and did a drill recently to see how to strong (or how weak) his plans to evacuate a jail were:
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office evacuated about 130 inmates from the Shelby County Jail Saturday morning, but it was only a test. The drill tested the jail’s evacuation plan and its preparedness in the event of a real-life emergency, said Shelby County Sheriff Mark Luttrell. As part of the exercise, the deputies temporarily installed razor wire atop the chain link fence and around the perimeters of a parking lot to the east of the jail.
You must plan for the prospect of civil unrest if there are man-made and other emergencies. As a resident in a community near a jail, you especially have to prepare yourself to safely bunker down in your home (or elsewhere). What will you do if it’s unsafe to go outside for a period of time because of escaped prisoners? Do you have enough water and other supplies?
Source:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/13/put-to-the-02/