Federal Judge Finds Alabama DOC Mental Health Care Horrendous, Orders: Start Hiring by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 27, 2021, four years after calling Alabama’s treatment of mentally ill prisoners “horrendously inadequate”—due largely to chronic understaffing—a federal judge issued a new mandate to the state Department …
News in Brief by Alabama: In Mobile on January 21, 2022, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama announced that an 18-month federal prison sentence for bribery had been handed down by a federal court to Lakerdra Shanta Snowden, 31, a former guard at the Escambia County …
News in Brief by Alabama: According to Birmingham Real-Time News, a kidnapper was recaptured after being erroneously released from jail in Jefferson County, Alabama, on December 17, 2021. The prisoner, Matthew Burke, 35, was apprehended during a traffic stop after being released from the Jefferson County Jail on Dec. 11 …
News in Brief by Alabama: On November 17, 2021, a former Alabama state prison guard was sentenced in federal court in Birmingham to 87 months in prison. As reported by the Birmingham News, a search found the guard, Gary Charles Dixon, Jr., 36, with 497 grams of methamphetamine when he …
U.S. DOJ Investigation of Manson Youth Institution U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Ave, NW - RFK Washington, DC 20530 December 21, 2021 The Honorable Ned Lamont Governor of Connecticut State Capitol 210 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 RE: Investigation of Manson Youth Institution …
News in Brief by Alabama: A 20-year-old guard at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, was arrested on October 29, 2021, on charges that he attempted to smuggle methamphetamine into the jail. According to a report by Huntsville TV station WHNT, the guard, Matthew Moran, faces one count …
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 19, 2021, twoconvicted robbers were convicted of murder in the death of a fellow prisoner they and two others attacked in 2017 at Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, Alabama. According to a report by Montgomery TV station WSFA, Dominique Covin and Roderick DeLaune …
The Killing Fields: Three Alabama State Prisoners Murdered in Five Days by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On May 8, 2021, 32-year-old prisoner Regial Ingram died at Alabama’s Bullock Correctional Facility. On May 6, 2021, 58-year-old prisoner Jody Potts died at Alabama’ s Limestone Correctional Facility. On May 4, 2021, …
News in Brief by Alabama: A former guard at the Mobile Metro Jail was scheduled to be arraigned on May 19, 2021, after being indicted for his role in an alleged scheme to smuggle cellphones into the Alabama lockup in exchange for bribes. According to a report by local TV …
Lawsuit Over Alabama Private Mega-Prison Leases Dismissed by Daniel A. Rosen by Daniel A. Rosen An Alabama judge recently ruled on a legal challenge seeking to block Governor Kay Ivey’s plan to lease three new privately-built mega-prisons in the state, siding with the Governor. Republican State Auditor Jim Ziegler and …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
