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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 ...
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 ...
[citation needed] The prison strike wanted to increase wages for prison labor and improve conditions across prisons in the United States. Riots broke out in protest against conditions in March 2016. [13] [14] In the first riot fires were set in a prison dorm; both the warden and a prison guard sustained stab wounds. [15]
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 ...
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 ...
Known as the "angel of the prisons", Tutwiler pushed for many reforms of the Alabama penal system. In a letter sent from Julia Tutwiler in Dothan, Alabama to Frank S. White in Birmingham, Alabama, Tutwiler pushed for key issues such as the end to convict leasing, the re-establishment of night school education, and the separation of minor offenders and hardened criminals. [3]
The system, which includes all the prisons in Alabama, is run for profit. The state’s 20,000 incarcerated people provide $450 million in goods and serves to Alabama each year.