'The point is what Alabama allows to happen to inmates and their families once they are locked inside,' columnist JohnArchibald writes. 'Once they are thrown away. It is one of the state’s biggest moral failings, and that’s saying something.'
“Prisoners routinely threaten or subject other prisoners to violence in order to coerce family and friends of the victim to transfer money in exchange for their loved one’s safety,” the Trump Justice Department argued in December 2020. “Prisoners have been ‘kidnapped’ by other prisoners and forcibly held, against their will, for multiple days while prisoner-captors extort the hostage-prisoner’s family and friends.”Which says it all.
Sarah says her son went to a sergeant and gave him the names of three people who threatened to kill him. “He had a complete meltdown,” Sarah said. “He started beating his head on filing cabinets and concrete wall so they snatched him up, took all his stuff and put him under suicide watch. He was under suicide watch for seven days.”
Spokesperson Kelly Bett this morning responded, saying the department investigates every report. She focused on contraband. Every answer from the state and the governor’s office is about building a single new prison that will cost a billion dollars and not be inhabitable for years. All as paroles“There is abject negligence and unwillingness to do anything creative in the prison system,” he said. “Now it’s just worse.”
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