Lawmakers should “spend time in prison for a few days,” said Sen. Vivian Figures.
Families of people being held in Alabama prisons testify in front of the Joint Legislative Prison Committee on July 24, 2024.Families of people being held in Alabama prisons testified before lawmakers in Montgomery on Wednesday, sharing accounts of rape, murder, extortion, beatings and rampant drug use.
This is how Martin summed up what she saw from the Alabama Department of Corrections: “third world country, drugs, murder, extortion, overdoses, gangs, lost hope…” She said their family has been extorted by other inmates who demanded money in exchange for his life. In June, just five months before his release date, he was stabbed in the head and the back and left outside to die, Roney testified. She said other inmates brought him back inside the facility, but their family never got answers about what happened
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