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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Investigations have been launched into alleged misconduct at three more Alabama prisons. The Associated Press reports Gov. Robert Bentley will investigate claims by the Equal Justice Initiative that correction workers are physically and sexually abusing inmates at three men’s prisons.
The Equal Justice Initiative has investigated Tutwiler Prison for women in the past and tells The Montgomery Advertiser that a new investigation has uncovered dozens of abuse cases at the Elmore Correctional Facility, Bibb Correctional Facility and Donaldson prison near Bessemer. Equal Justice Initiative executive director Bryan Stevenson tells the AP that problems appear worst in the Elmore facility, a prison reportedly designed for 600 inmates but held 1,180 - nearly twice as many - at the beginning of April.
Stevenson said “if we keep acting as if these are isolated incidents that only occur rarely we are not going to create the type of structure that is needed to address the problem.”
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Keywords: prisons,Tutweiller,Elmore,Bibb,Donaldson,Equal Justice Initiative,Bryan Stevenson
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