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The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) is an inmates rights group based in the United States. With the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, [1] the Free Alabama Movement has organized the 2016 U.S. prison strike that involved an estimated 24,000 prisoners in 24 states, the largest prison strike in U.S. history. [2]
Dec. 19—Editor's Note: The Cullman Times is counting down the top stories of 2023. Here's No. 9. Thanks to statewide reform in sentencing for most Alabama inmates this year, Cullman County found ...
The 2016 U.S. prison strike was a prison work stoppage that began on September 9, 2016, the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising. [1] The strike occurred in 24 states, and over 24,000 prisoners took part in the strike. [2]
It operates the nation's most crowded prison system. In 2015 it housed more than 24,000 inmates in a system designed for 13,318. [3] In 2015 it settled a class-action suit over physical and sexual violence against inmates at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka. [4] The department also spends the least of any state on a per-prisoner ...
Two inmates who passed away while in Alabama prisons allegedly had their bodies returned to their families with missing hearts or other organs, a lawsuit claims. Brandon Clay Dotson, 43, died in ...
The family of an Alabama inmate who was found dead in his bed filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his heart had been removed before the facility returned the body to them.
St. Clair Correctional Facility is an Alabama state men's prison located in Springville, St. Clair County, Alabama. The prison was originally built in 1983, [1] and has an operating capacity of 1,514 inmates. [2] The current warden is Guy Noe. [1]
A 22-year-old Alabama inmate was left brain-dead following a brutal prison assault and died the day he was supposed to have been released, leaving his family demanding answers and justice.