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The Justice Department has had enough of Alabama’s famously dangerous prisons. After repeatedly trying to force the state to fix one of the worst correctional systems in the country, the federal ...
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in 2020 against Alabama arguing that conditions in the prison system — which the Justice Department called one of the most understaffed and violent ...
On Friday August 29, 1975, two U.S. federal district court judges, William Brevard Hand and Frank M. Johnson Jr., ordered Alabama authorities to stop sending any more prisoners to Holman, Fountain Correctional Facility, Draper Correctional Facility, and the Medical and Diagnostic Center, due to overcrowding; the four prisons, designed to hold ...
Three men died in apparent inmate-on-inmate assaults in less than one week in Alabama prisons, a spate of death that happened as the state faces a Justice Department lawsuit over prison violence ...
The Alabama non-profit Equal Justice Initiative had already called for a change in leadership three months prior, after inmate Jodey Waldrop was killed in the early morning hours of June 3, [7] for what they described as a pattern of serious neglect and violence, including an incident when the then-warden punched a handcuffed prisoner. As of ...
Elmore is the site of three Alabama state prisons: Staton Correctional Facility and Draper Correctional Facility, which are adjacent to one another, and Elmore about a mile to the east. Elmore inmate Johnny Lee Spears was stabbed to death by another prisoner on March 25, 2016, [ 2 ] and another prisoner was stabbed and wounded in April, in July ...
Alabama sends so many people to prison that the state can no longer safely house its inmates, consequences of a tough-on-crime mentality among politicians and the public that keeps aggressive ...
This is a list of state prisons in Alabama. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of Alabama. Major facilities Kilby ...