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Alabama Jail Held in Contempt for Crowding

Afederal district court in Alabama held that a jail had willfully refused to comply with a consent decree limiting jail crowding and held the defendants in contempt and imposed sanctions of $100 per day for every prisoner held in the jail over its capacity of 30 prisoners. In 1992 Macon ...

 

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