Alabama Jail Accused of Granting Detainee’s Medical Bond Just Before Death to Avoid Costly Medical Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Alabama’s Dallas County Jail (DCJ) has a “scheme” of releasing very ill detainees to avoid the cost of their medical care. That explosive allegation lay at the …
News in Brief by Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting …
Alabama Guard, Prisoners Among 13 Sentenced in Phone Scam and Drug-Smuggling Ring by 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 …
Alabama Prisoner Disciplined for Lying When Guard Cleared of Sexual Assault Allegation by On February 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a grant of qualified immunity (QI) to three Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) officials and dismissed a prisoner’s suit alleging they retaliated against …
Alabama Warden and Wife Busted for Making “Magic” Mushrooms by Warden Chadwick “Chad” Ray Crabtree, 45, of Alabama’s Limestone Correctional Facility (LCF), was behind bars at Limestone County Jail on April 19, 2024, after agents from the state Department of Corrections (DOC) joined local and state cops to execute five …
More Alabama Prisoners Murdered in Overcrowded Lockups by After a string of killings at Alabama prisons blamed on overcrowding, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a statement of interest on July 7, 2024, in a long-running lawsuit over conditions at one state prison. With too few guards to adequately …
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
“We Killed Him”: Alabama Jailers Cut Plea Deals After Detainee Freezes to Death by On July 31, 2024, a former guard at Alabama’s Walker County Jail agreed to plead guilty to federal charges filed after a detainee was left naked on his cell floor for two weeks and froze to …
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Credit to Prisoner’s LWOP Sentence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 9, 2024, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that even though Henry Neal Ferguson III had been sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP), he …
Alabama Denies Parole to Dead Prisoner by Having granted release to a whopping 3% of eligible state prisoners so far in 2024—that’s 25 parole grants out of 792 hearings—the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) likely surprised no one when it denied release to Frederick Bishop on March 9, …
Condemned Alabama Prisoner Challenges Execution by Nitrogen Hypoxia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing Alabama’s “bad track record of botched executions,” death row prisoner David P. Wilson, 41, filed a civil rights action on February 15, 2024, alleging that the state’s intended use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
For Beating Handcuffed Prisoners, Former Alabama Guard Supervisor Gets 87 Months by On December 19, 2023, the federal court for the Northern District of Alabama sentenced former state prison guard supervisor Mohammad Jenkins, 52, to seven years and three months in federal prison for assaulting two handcuffed prisoners at William …
Despite Unemployment Spike, Alabama Refuses Prisoners Work-Release Paroles by Alabama is notoriously stingy with parole grants to eligible prisoners, but it also leaves many to languish in work-release centers, where the unemployment rate in January 2024 hit 26%—far above the state’s overall rate of just 2.9% Though numbering just 350 …
More Alabama Prisoners’ Families Say Their Corpses Were Returned Without Organs by More cases have surfaced in which families report organs missing from the bodies of loved ones who died in custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC). As PLN reported, the first was the family of Brandon Dotson, …
Moye v. Butler, AL, Judgment, Inadequate Medical Care, 2024 Case 1:22-cv-00026-JB-B Document 155 Filed 05/23/24 Page 1 of 1 PageID #: 4728 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION CANYON DUFF MOYE, Plaintiff, v. MANUEL POUPARINAS, M.D., Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) …
Alabama Denied Summary Judgment in Prisoner’s Suit Over Knifepoint Rape by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke On August 22, 2023, the federal court for the Middle District of Alabama declined to dismiss all but a few claims against officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) that were made …
Alabama Woman Jailed for “Fetal Endangerment” Sues After She Was Forced to Give Birth Alone in Jail Shower by Among the worst places to put a pregnant woman, a jail cell ranks fairly high. Yet that’s exactly where Ashley Caswell found herself—jailed in Alabama’s Etowah County for “fetal endangerment.” Ultimately …
Six Deaths in Just Over Six Months at Alabama Jail by With the death of Elvin Craig Stacy, 63, on January 2, 2024, Alabama’s Mobile Metro Jail had racked up six detainee deaths in just over six months. The spate of deaths began on June 26, 2023, when Ernest James …
Fired Alabama Guard Reinstated Despite Excessive Force Used on Prisoner Who Died by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On October 24, 2023, the Alabama Personnel Board (APB) reinstated Capt. Timothy McCorvey, a guard dismissed by the warden at Ventress Correctional Facility in 2023 for using excessive force against a …
