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Alabama DOC Proves Truly “Heartless”
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2024, page 12
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Threats by Staff,
Parole Board Misconduct,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Retaliation for Media Contact,
Retaliation for Organizing,
Whistleblowing,
Retaliatory Segregation,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General),
Staffing,
Wrongful Death,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death),
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Alabama.
In a weird-but-true story that’s oddly fitting for Alabama’s wretched prison system, the body of a state prisoner murdered on November 16, 2023, was returned to his survivors five days later without a heart.
That is the claim of a lawsuit filed in federal court for the Northern District of ...
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