“Alabama Department of Corrections has its version of what's going on inside Holman, Kilby, Staton and the state's other prisons in its official news releases. Nearly every day, accounts released by state officials are reported without verification, despite the fact multiple federal institutions have found that ADOC's own employees have lied in their record-keeping and under-counted violent incidents as severe as murder. To get the other side of the story, the Advertiser paid for phone calls and stamps to include these men in the narrative about their own lives, which they are often excluded from telling by nature of their incarceration.“
Montgomery Advertiser
November 15, 2019