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Family members and advocates describe overcrowding, heat, drugs and deaths at Alabama prisons
Summary
Multiple speakers told the Joint Prison Oversight Committee about facility overcrowding, extreme heat, plumbing and sanitation problems, deaths and pervasive contraband; family members urged faster accountability and transparency from the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Multiple family members and former incarcerated people described living and working conditions inside Alabama prisons that they said are unsafe and unsanitary.
Tim Mathis, who said his son was murdered at an Elmore facility, told the committee he is “compelled to tell you” the measures to prevent murders and assaults are inadequate. Mathis cited Department of Corrections confiscation statistics he read from a state report: “They confiscated over 76 pounds of illicit drugs. 25 grams of that was fentanyl… They…
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