The family of Daniel Williams, who died in Alabama's Staton Correctional Facility after enduring days of violence, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against state prison officials. The lawsuit alleges that prison officials were aware of dangerous conditions and failed to take action to protect inmates, resulting in Williams' death.
Inmates rest on their bunks in Dorm B in Alabama 's Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County in 2013, when reporters were allowed in. Daniel Williams was imprisoned there before he died.including being raped and beaten, before his “brutal murder,” according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday by the family of Daniel Williams.
Williams, who entered the state prison system in July 2023 after pleading guilty to assault and theft charges, was left brain dead after the days-long brutality andThe wrongful death lawsuit filed in federal court in Montgomery by Amber Renee Williams, the mother of Daniel Williams’ surviving daughter, claimed Alabama Department of Corrections officials, including Commissioner John Hamm and three wardens at Staton, have blood on their hands for the 22-year-old’s death. The lawsuit claimed the officials failed to implement programs to reduce violence at Staton or change policies or procedures to address unsafe conditions at Alabama prisons despite a long-running Justice Department lawsuit. That lawsuit alleged the agency fails to protect prisoners from inmate-on-inmate violence and sexual abuse, from excessive force by staff, and to provide safe conditions of confinement, which violates constitutional prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment. “Despite being apprised of these conditions, defendant acted with deliberate indifference to the care and safety of inmates like Daniel Williams and took no action to remedy the conditions at Staton Correctional Facility,” the lawsuit claims.Moreover, the lawsuit alleged, officials “were aware of a spike of assaults and other disciplinary issues occurring in October 2023, the same month that Daniel Williams was brutally assaulted and tortured. Yet, according to the lawsuit, “ach defendant stood idly by, failing to properly supervise and protect, and failing to take reasonable steps to avoid the likelihood of great harm to the inmate
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