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Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 9, 2021, a former guard at the Federal Correctional Institution in Aliceville, Alabama, agreed to plead guilty to federal charges that he had sexual intercourse with a prisoner in the laundry room at the women’s prison west of Tuscaloosa. According to the Birmingham …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: According to a report by the Alabama Political Reporter, a state prisoner was fatally stabbed by another man incarcerated with him at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore on May 4, 2021—just one day before his scheduled release, which would also have been his twenty-fourth birthday. …
Article • June 1, 2021 • from PLN June, 2021
Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner Dies in 101-Degree Cell by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Hardly a summer passes that prisoners do not die from heat illnesses of one variety or another. This is especially true in the southern part of the country where retributive attitudes prevail along with an enslavement …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2021, Huntsville TV station WHNT reported a delay in the trial on theft and ethics charges of Mike Blakely, sheriff of Limestone County, Alabama. According to the report, retired Colbert County Circuit Judge Pride Tompkins, who had been appointed to hear the case …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Alabama Prisons, Among Deadliest for COVID-19, Not Prepared to Vaccinate Prisoners by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has postponed COVID-19 vaccinations for prisoners, although a March 1, 2021 story by The Marshall Project and the Associated Press placed the state prison system eighth in …
Brief • April 27, 2021
Ziegler v. Ivey, AL, Complaint, Private Prison Contracts, 2021 DOCUMENT 2 ELECTRONICALLY FILED 4/27/2021 4:53 PM 03-CV-2021-900447.00 CIRCUIT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALABAMA GINA J. ISHMAN, CLERK IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ALABAMA JIM ZEIGLER JOHN W. ROGERS LESLIE OGBURN KENNY GLASGOW ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiffs, …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Prisoner Exchange
Alabama Jails and Prisoners Swamped With COVID-Related Problems by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen Like local jails and prisons across the country, Alabama’s carceral system is being sorely tested by COVID-19 — and prisoners are paying the price. For weeks, Dylan Garrard fell asleep on a thin foam …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Two Alabama jail guards were arrested in just two months for allegedly smuggling cellphones to inmates. In February 2021, 27-year-old D’Mario Jones was fired and charged with two counts of promoting prison contraband at the Lee County Detention Center in Opelika where he worked. According …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
U.S. Sues Alabama Over Prison Conditions by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on December 9, 2020, filed a lawsuit alleging that the state of Alabama is “deliberately indifferent” to unconstitutional conditions persisting at its state prisons, facilities that “are riddled with prisoner-on-prisoner and …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
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News in Brief by Afghanistan: As fighting continued between Taliban forces and the Afghan military on September 3, 3020, both parties announced they had nearly completed a prisoner exchange negotiated the previous February. According to a report by Japan’s public broadcasting company, HNK, the Taliban said all 1,000 Afghan prisoners …
Alabama Court Allows Lawsuit Over Indigent Traffic Offenders Jailed for Not Paying Fines by David Reutter by David M. Reutter An Alabama federal district court allowed portions of a lawsuit to move forward that sought damages from the City of Montgomery (the City) and Judicial Correction Services, Inc. (JCS). The …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 21, 2020, Sylvester Hartley became the seventh prisoner to die of complications from COVID-19 at Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility, according to a report in the St. Clair News-Aegis. The 60-year-old, who was serving a life-without-parole sentence for three counts of first-degree kidnapping, …
Article • January 1, 2021 • from PLN January, 2021
Alabama Guards Accused of Excessive Use of Force, Hospitalizing One Prisoner and Injuring Another by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Christopher Hampton and Cortney Rolley, represented by Eric Artrip of Mastando & Artrip, LLC, filed a class-action suit against a group of guards at Elmore Correctional Facility (ECF) located near …
Brief • December 9, 2020
US v. State of Alabama, AL, Complaint, Failure to Protect, 2020 FILED Case 2:20-cv-01971-JHE Document 1 Filed 12/09/20 Page 1 of 24 2020 Dec-09 PM 04:28 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA IN THE UNITED STATES DISIRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRTCT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION ) ) ) ) …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: Chanting “not one more,” about 30 carloads of protesters from “Alabamians Who Care” caravanned to the governor’s mansion in Montgomery on August 1, 2020, protesting a plan by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to build three new “mega-prisons.” According to a report by Montgomery TV station …
Families of 4 Alabama Prisoners Who Committed Suicide File Federal Lawsuit Against Prison Officials by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 24, 2020, the families of four Alabama state prisoners who committed suicide as they languished in isolation cells in the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) filed a federal …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: The Birmingham News reported that an Alabama prison guard had been arrested for drug trafficking after a search of his vehicle when he arrived for work at the St. Clair County prison turned up 138 grams of methamphetamine and 16 grams of heroin. Ivan Caldwell, …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Alabama Executes Non-Shooter in Police Killings by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death penalty is advocated both for punishing the most atrocious cases of murder and for its alleged deterrent effect. Yet on March 5, 2020, Alabama executed a 44-year-old man, not for committing murder but instead because …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
DOJ Finds Frequent Use of Excessive Force in Alabama Prisons by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a report that found the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) violates prisoners’ Eighth Amendment rights by frequently using excessive force. The report found overcrowding and understaffing …
Article • October 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2020
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News in Brief by Alabama: In February 2020, a grand jury in Limestone County, Alabama, returned an indictment for “possession/receipt of a controlled substance” against Travis Wales, a former guard at the Limestone County Correctional Facility in Harvest. According to Columbus, Georgia, TV station WBRL, Wales was arrested in September …
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