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State shifts 1,440 from prisons, jails in evacuation areas

Submitted by AndrewRoman on 08/26/2011 - 17:16
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Staff writer Anne Blythe reports that state prisons have evacuated 1,300 inmates from Hyde Correctional Institution in Swan Quarter and Tyrrell Prison Work Farm in Columbia.

In addition, some 140 inmates from county jails in Beaufort and Dare counties were moved with the state prison inmates.

Buses and drivers are on hand, according to prison administrators, for further evacuations if necessary.
 

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Andrew Roman works as a content producer for newsobserver.com. When not slinging stories online, he contributes (infrequently) to the site's technology, weather, nightlife and fitness sections/blogs.
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