Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/series/alabama-prison-crisis/)
The Alabama Department of Corrections operates one of the deadliest, most dysfunctional prison systems in the country. This series examines systemic problems at the corrections agency, which, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in a 2019 report, holds men in prison conditions that likely violate the Constitution.
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.