Not long after I started serving in my church’s prison ministry I was about to head out to one of the facilities when I got a text to stand down for that Sunday.
Turned out a trustee inmate allowed to work outside the prison on a landscaping crew rode his mower over to a tree line, jumped off and took off into the woods.
2 days later they caught him, and as I heard it, he was ready as he was bug bit on every square inch of his body from the ankles up.
Florida has many natural hazzards, some can hardly be seen by the naked eye but are vicious just the same....especially yellow (deer) flies......those little SOBs leave a particularly nasty bite.
Deer flies- horse flies (Larger, worse bite), Black Flies, No-See-Ums, mosquitos, ticks, etc- Nature is brutal- We get the black flies so thick it’s a chore not to inhale them-
I used to work outside, and used to smoke, to keep them out of my face all the time- We poured cement for a large building once, and for some reason, the black flies swarmed to the cement and was just brutal- totally relentless- was gad to get the first floor on so we were above the cement where the flies were about 1/2 the amount- Still annoying, but better-
The escapee couldn’t risk a fire either- which woulda helped keep fleis away-
I did prison ministry too for awhile- Takes a special person to deal with folks like inmates who lie for a living- I wasn’t the kind of person to deal with them so well- I just couldn’t stand how they tried to constantly con us- I didn’t have a very good attitude at the time about it-
- they had a fella escape with help from a guard, and he had to endure brutal conditions too- bet he was glad to get back to prison lol