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Alabama Guard, Prisoners Among 13 Sentenced in Phone Scam and Drug-Smuggling Ring

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2024 published in Prison Legal News November, 2024, page 11
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Cell Searches, War on Drugs, Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet. Location: Alabama.

On July 1, 2024, the last of 13 people was sentenced in a drug-­smuggling scheme at Alabama’s Donaldson Correctional Facility that included five prisoners. The last of those, Otis “Big O” Bowers, 44, had been sentenced on April 4, 2024, to 235 months in federal prison, after he and fellow ...

 

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