The Alabama Department of Corrections will no longer track the number of these deaths by month.
, the first month of the 2023 fiscal year, the department noted, “All death statistics for inmates in ADOC custody are reported by month in the joint legislative prison oversight committee quarterly reports.”“The story itself was a shock to me considering, like I said, how terrible things are within the department,” said England.Rep. England, a member of the prison oversight committee, says now is not the time for less transparency.
“I believe that sunshine is the best disinfectant,” he said. “If you’re paying someone $1.5 million of taxpayers’ money to be a public information dissemination, then they should disseminate that information to the public.” “There are people that are being held accountable for their actions. We just have a long way to go,” said Simpson.
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