The Department of Justice blasts Alabama's men's prisons, saying in a report that the system fails to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault and detailing a litany of nightmarish incidents.
The Department of Justice blasted Alabama's men's prisons Wednesday, saying in a report that the system fails to protect inmates from violence and sexual assault and detailing a litany of nightmarish incidents.
"Our investigation revealed that an excessive amount of violence, sexual abuse, and prisoner deaths occur within Alabama’s prisons on a regular basis," the report states. During that week, the investigation describes a series of violent attacks and sexual assaults, including a prisoner who "was so severely assaulted by four other prisoners that he had to be transported to an outside hospital for treatment."
The sign to The William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is displayed, March 16, 2016. Charlotte Morrison, the senior attorney at the Montgomery-based non-profit Equal Justice Initiative, said the Department of Justice’s letter “corroborated” the concerns that advocates have been sharing for months and years.
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