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Alabama Prisoners Continue to Die at Alarming Rate, More Than One Every Week in 2022
Loaded on Sept. 30, 2022
by Jo Ellen Nott
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2022, page 22
Filed under:
Wrongful Death.
Location:
Alabama.
by Jo Ellen Nott
With 39 prisoners dead by September 1, 2022 — despite a federal Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation ongoing since 2016 and two federal court orders — the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) remains unwilling or unable to address hellish conditions in its prisons.
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