According to various reports, Hurricane Irma has made landfall in Florida early Sunday bringing with it wind speeds up to 130 mph.

Last week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in all of the state's counties in anticipation of Irma's power. While many have evacuated to shelters, an often ignored group, inmates, will be left in vulnerable evacuation zones.

Vice News reports that dozens of prisons were emptied and prisoners were sent to safer and more secure locations. However, federal, state and local officials have left prisoners in areas that are considered high risk and in Irma's path. 

Estimates indicate that Miami’s federal prison, one county jail and two state prisons have roughly 5,000 prisons who have not been relocated as of this report. There are about 700 people on house arrest that have not been instructed to leave their homes and evacuate in Miami-Dade County earlier last week.

According to Vice, 120 of those people were planned to be taken into custody on Wednesday, Sept. 6 for the duration of the hurricane but there is no real number indicating how many were moved.  

“I’ve been getting some calls from inmates, but none of them have been told anything,” said an attorney with Miami-Dade’s public defender office who requested to remain anonymous for fear of being reprimanded for speaking to the media. “Family members of the clients are in the dark.”

Between Wednesday and Saturday, 7,000 inmates from work camps and community release centers in south and central Florida have moved away from flood prone areas per The Tampa Bay Times. Relatives can track inmates via the Florida Department of Corrections website.

CBS Maimi reports that 700,000 people were evacuated by Wednesday evening. Many of those citizens came from  Zones A, B and parts of C over life-threatening storm surge expected during the storm.

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