Justice Dept. finds 'severe' problems in Alabama prisons in scathing report

Brynn Anderson / AP fileGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Justice Department has determined that Alabama's prisons are violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by housing them in unsafe and overcrowded facilities, according to a scathing report Wednesday that described the problems as"severe" and"systemic.

"Our investigation found reasonable cause to believe that Alabama fails to provide constitutionally adequate conditions and that prisoners experience serious harm, including deadly harm, as a result," said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband, who leads the department's civil rights division."The Justice Department hopes to work with Alabama to resolve the Department's concerns.

In a single week in September 2017, the report found, two inmates stood guard at the doors of a dormitory in one facility while two others repeatedly stabbed a prisoner who eventually bled to death; an inmate at another facility was stabbed and had to be evacuated by helicopters; and a prisoner in a dorm reserved for inmates with good behavior was woken from sleep when two inmates attacked him with a sock filled with metal locks.

The findings are the result of an investigation opened in 2016 at the end of the Obama administration, which was aggressive in launching wide-ranging investigations into troubled police departments and corrections systems. In a number of cases, those probes led to agreements to make changes under federal oversight. The Trump administration, in contrast, has taken a more hands-off approach.

I hate to bring this up, but how many humane jails do you think exists.

Southern backwards way of life

BAMA!!!!

Nothing new here. Nothing to see here, move along.

Yeah but what are they going to do about it, great to know the problem, where is the solution. ABC CBSNews CNN FoxNews MSNBC

Is this really a surprise to anyone? Look where the jail is.

Interesting that the Justice Department can find crimes in a prison in Alabama, but crimes committed right under their noses by Obama, Hillary and other Democrats, they dont see. Oh wait, Justice was part of Obama and Hillary crimes. nevermind

I'm sure all prisons are in the same boat.

lol! Just now figure that out?

what happened to Merica land of the free ?

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