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Jail and Prison Conditions

Even if an inmate's sentence is not oppressively long, their treatment while incarcerated can still constitute subhuman treatment. Prisons are not medical facilities, but they regularly are forced to deal with mental health problems and care for elderly and terminally ill inmates. Food, if it's even edible, usually lacks enough nutrition for inmates' health to not deteriorate. Plus, with a lack of opportunities to see family, read, or gain skill sets, inmates are placed in buildings which lack any resemblance of the civilized world.

Equal Justice Initiative sounds alarm over sharp rise in Alabama prison slayings

“The Equal Justice Initiative said today there have been 13 homicides in Alabama prisons this year, part of a sharp increase over the last decade that has raised the homicide rate far above the most recently available national rate. The 13 slayings this year represent a rate of about 62 homicides per 100,000 inmates. The national homicide rate in state prisons was 7 per 100,000 in 2012, 2013, and 2014, the most recent numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.“

Birmingham News

November 18, 2019

Death in PrisonPhillip ReevesNovember 18, 2019Birmingham News, Alabama, Equal Justice InitiativeComment

What You Need to Know About the Alabama Prison Crisis

“Alabama is facing important questions as an intensifying prison crisis continues to claim lives. Each day there is unrelenting violence. How to spend millions of dollars is being debated and it is important to know more about the Alabama prison crisis, its causes, and potential solutions.“

Equal Justice Initiative

March 11, 2019

Prison ViolencePhillip ReevesMarch 11, 2019Equal Justice Initiative, AlabamaComment

Jail and Prison Conditions

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