The U.S. Justice Department said Alabama is violating the Constitution by failing to protect prisoners from violence and sexual abuse and housing them in unsafe, overcrowded facilities. The state's governor promised to seek 'an Alabama solution.'
Prisoners stand in line at Alabama's Elmore Correctional Facility in 2015. The Justice Department says Alabama's prisons are failing to protect inmates from violence and housing them in unsafe and overcrowded facilities.
released Wednesday condemns virtually every aspect of prison operations, chronicling a"broken system" beset by poor staff training; an inability to prevent the drugs and weapons from entering;"and a high level of violence that is too common, cruel, of an unusual nature." The report describes inmates brutally attacking one another with knives and other weapons, and a management system that undercounts homicides and fails to protect prisoners even when there has been warning of a problem. Staffing shortages, it says, are at a"crisis level."
In a single week in September 2017, two inmates stood guard at a dormitory's doors while two others repeatedly stabbed a prisoner who eventually bled to death. Another inmate was stabbed and had to be evacuated by helicopter, and a prisoner in a dorm reserved for inmates with good behavior was attacked with a sock filled with metal locks.
"I don't think there is any dispute that the conditions in Alabama prisons are desperate. They are the worst I've seen in 35 years.Alabama's prisons also have a high suicide rate, and a federal judge in 2017 ruled that the state has provided"horrendously inadequate" care to mentally ill inmates.
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