“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

“"Being in here is like being in hell," said one prisoner, who spent part of the heat wave in a solitary confinement cell with little air flow. He slept on the floor, his mattress soaked with sweat, he said. Though prison officials say the cells are ventilated, the prisoner only felt a thin stream of air flow through the cell door's slot for food trays as heat indexes in Alabama hovered in the 110 to 115 degree range.“

Montgomery Advertiser

August 20, 2019