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Deaths and Violence Mount at Overcrowded Alabama Prisons While Parole Rate Hits New Low
Loaded on April 1, 2022
by Jo Ellen Nott, Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2022, page 1
Filed under:
Overcrowding,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Wrongful Death,
Probation, Parole & Supervised Release.
Location:
Alabama.
by Kevin Bliss and Jo Ellen Nott
On February 5, 2022, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nine-year sentence had been handed down to the last of four Alabama prison guards convicted of beating state prisoners they suspected of smuggling contraband at Elmore Correctional Facility (ECF).
Three days ...
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