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Two inmates who passed away while in Alabama prisons allegedly had their bodies returned to their families with missing hearts or other organs, a lawsuit claims.. Brandon Clay Dotson, 43, died in ...
A 22-year-old Alabama inmate was left brain-dead following a brutal prison assault and died the day he was supposed to have been released, leaving his family demanding answers and justice.
The family of an Alabama inmate who was found dead in his bed filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his heart had been removed before the facility returned the body to them.
Casey was returned to Alabama the next day after waiving his right to an extradition hearing. [30] He was transferred back to the state prison in Bessemer, Alabama, rather than the facility from which he escaped. [31] His motion for a preliminary hearing on the escape charge was denied on June 13, with the judge referring the case to grand jury.
Hundreds of offenders who are housed at Donaldson have life without parole sentences. The prison includes a segregation unit for 300 inmates; Donaldson's segregation unit is the largest unit in the State of Alabama. The correctional facility came under media scrutiny in 2022 after 7 inmates died within the span of one week. [5]
On April 13, 2023, inmate Jim Kennedy Jr. died at the age of 67 in an Alabama prison, where he was serving a sentence of 300 years for rape, sodomy and kidnapping.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 78 people (77 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
The bodies of two men who died while incarcerated in Alabama's prison system were missing their hearts or other organs when returned to their families, a federal lawsuit alleges. The family of ...