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Her experience echoes other troubling accounts about how Alabama prison officials handle critically injured or sick prisoners and their families during medical crises, and how little they reveal about those cases, even when inmates die.
The family of Marquette Cummings sued the Alabama prison system in 2015 after doctors took him off life support under instructions from a warden.
Alabama investigators detailed the brutal events that led to Billy Smith’s death — including dousing him with water while unresponsive and a nurse who refused to treat him.
Criminal justice experts offered several explanations for the 13 outliers, from missing evidence to stringent DNA testing laws and small prison populations.
A St. Clair County Circuit judge appeared before a state agency that has powers to discipline him, including removal from the bench, over charges he lied to police and to the investigating state agency over his contacts with a murder suspect. The judge contends it is all a political smear by his enemies.