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The attorney for A. C. Smith, the former Montgomery police officer found guilty of killing Gregory Gunn, argues our state pens aren't safe enough for his client. He's likely right. That doesn't mean, though, he should not serve his time alongside a few of our state's 31,000+ incarcerated men and women.

#@mobile #@opinion #@river-all

Though at the center of Alabama's deteriorating prison system, incarcerated individuals are rarely heard. These are their stories.

The men cry.They speak in hushed tones, fearful they'll be labeled a "snitch" by guards.Some witnessed so much mind-scarring violence that they fear they will never heal. Like the Alabama prisoner who saw another human being sodomized with a broomstick and assaulted with boiling water poured down his anus. Another man, in drug debt, was made to walk on all fours wearing a collar and leash like a dog. All too often, the voices of the people directly affected by the Alabama prison system are not heard. Effectively cut off from the outside world, the lucky men have loved ones to advocate for their safety and welfare. Others have no one, can't afford to make phone calls from prison or have difficulty getting stamps to write. In many ways, the state speaks for them.

Mississippi prison inmates are turning into citizen journalists to expose the horrid conditions inside the prisons.

The latest video to surface of the gang war was recorded by a Mississippi inmate, who is claiming a corrections officer sat in front of a man's cell watching him die for 45 minutes while holding a shotgun

Romance, contraband, and guards becoming greedy started Mississippi prison riots, according to inmates.

Inmates have continued to use social media to show their friends and family what transpires behind the gated prison walls in Mississippi.

Understaffing, powerful gangs and constant lockdowns brew tensions that exploded last week.

Mississippi prisons erupted in violence last week: at least five prisoners were stabbed or beaten to death by other inmates. The Marshall Project has been reporting on prison conditions there for months. In June, we revealed how officials at the privately run Wilkinson County Correctional Facility allowed gangs to run the prison. Since then, current and former prison staff, as well as prisoners and their families, repeatedly warned us that violence could erupt any time. All it needed was a spark to set it off.

Understaffed and underfunded, Mississippi’s Parchman prison recently received media attention for its grisly violence, gang control and subhuman living conditions. However, lawmakers have known about these issues for years, and have done nothing to fix it.

#lawmakers have known about these issues for years

Half of America’s prisoners are in for violent crimes, but reforms often leave them behind.

The great divide over violent offenders and mass incarceration. There is a broad political consensus to ease incarceration rates by releasing more nonviolent offenders from prison and easing laws that put them there in the first place. No such consensus exists, however, for easing sentences for those convicted of “violent” crimes, although the topic has come up a little more often during this Democratic presidential campaign than it has in past cycles.

Although pro-pot groups insist that 2019 has been the best year ever in the realm of cannabis reform, the reality is not much progress has transpired. But that could change in 2020.

December 7, 2019

#MUMI2019

Activists, politicians and former prisoners are divided over how to close the notorious Rikers Island complex and what should replace it – if anything

#cities #us prisons #new york #communities #society

Prison deaths in Mississippi have climbed nearly 40 percent in recent years, from 62 in fiscal year 2014 to a high of 85 in fiscal year 2018.

Outraged? Call 888-887-9480 to demand an immediate investigation into Mississippi's prisons. Oversight can't wait.

Paul Skalnik has a decadeslong criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

Paul Skalnik may be the most prolific jailhouse informant in the nation’s history. He’s a man with a remarkable history of fraud and lying who nevertheless collaborated with one prosecutor after another over decades. What they got was dramatic courtroom testimony, true or not, that incriminated defendants.

#state of florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word

Even after a major class action suit required Illinois to revamp its prison healthcare system, doctors whose alleged neglect resulted in major injury or death still remain on the prison system payroll.

Prison doctors are the worst. Corrections officials are unable to attract the most talented physicians because of low salaries and poor working conditions. Understaffing is a chronic problem, too, and so are legal standards and prison rules that do not hold medical staff accountable even for egregious treatment. The result is that countless ailing prisoners in Illinois and other states are deprived of the medical care the Constitution requires.

Though at the center of Alabama's deteriorating prison system, incarcerated individuals are rarely heard. These are their stories.

The men cry.

They speak in hushed tones, fearful they'll be labeled a "snitch" by guards.

Some witnessed so much mind-scarring violence that they fear they will never heal. Like the Alabama prisoner who saw another human being sodomized with a broomstick and assaulted with boiling water poured down his anus. Another man, in drug debt, was made to walk on all fours wearing a collar and leash like a dog.

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