Alabama’s men’s prisons routinely violate inmates’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from violence and sex abuse, U.S. probe finds
Alabama’s men’s prisons routinely violate inmates’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from violence and sexual abuse, the Justice Department said Wednesday, after a sweeping investigation that revealed brutal conditions in the state’s overcrowded and understaffed facilities.
Conditions are so bad that they constitute the kind of “cruel and unusual punishment” barred by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, the department said, describing a volatile, filthy environment in which inmates frequently attack each...
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