A man serving life without parole in an Alabama prison for four 2006 murders has landed four new charges after a “security incident” at the lockup Sunday during which the inmate was seen in Facebook Live videos in an officer’s vest and holding a gun.
Shaw was seen in the video with a bloody bandage around his wrist. In one of the videos, Shaw said he cut his wrist on razor wire on a prison fence at Donaldson Correctional Facility and that he called 911 from a cellphone out of fear he would bleed to death.He said he walked to back to the prison dorms and was mistaken for a correctional officer because of the vest.
Shaw seems to say he got a gun as “insurance we didn’t even have to get physical...Y’all’s eyes got big as golf balls.”In the video, Shaw complained about prisons.“They’re beating the people, they’re beating the taxpayers, man,” Shaw said. “They create the conditions so that we die all the time....All of us are getting fed up, bro,’’ he said. “It’s absolute chaos every single day.”The U.S. Department of JusticeThe Justice Department cited failure to protect prisoners from inmate-on-inmate violence and sexual abuse, failure to protect them from excessive force by staff, and failure to provide safe conditions of confinement.Each new prison is designed to house 4,000 inmates.Alabama remains on track to face trial against the U.S.
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