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Federal court could tell Alabama how to fix its prisons


Federal court could tell Alabama how to fix its prisons
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
A dorm at Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Ala., is shown in April 2016 holding 300 prisoners.Julie Bennett/AL.com.
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Gov. Kay Ivey has consistently said that “an Alabama solution” is the way to fix the state’s overcrowded, understaffed, and violent state prisons, but that won’t happen without new input from a federal court.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state in U.S. District Court in Birmingham on Wednesday, alleging that Alabama violates the constitutional rights of prisoners by failure to protect them from assaults and sexual abuse from other inmates, excessive force by correctional officers, and failure to provide safe and sanitary conditions. ....

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