Demanding Broad Reforms, Thousands of Inmate Workers on Strike at Alabama Prisons

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Demanding Broad Reforms, Thousands of Inmate Workers on Strike at Alabama Prisons
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'The DOJ's intervention has done nothing to shift conditions inside Alabama prisons. They remain incredibly unsafe, inhumane, and exploitative.' ShutDownADOC2022

"The DOJ's intervention has done nothing to shift conditions inside Alabama prisons," said one supporter."They remain incredibly unsafe, inhumane, and exploitative."Saying that even a lawsuit filed by the U.S.

This crisis has occurred as a result of antiquated sentencing laws that led to overcrowding, numerous deaths, [and] severe physical injury, as well as mental anguish to incarcerated individuals," said the inmates. Alabama's prisons are notoriously overcrowded; a 2019 report by the DOJ found the facilities at 182% capacity. The state's Republican leaders plan to build two more prisons, but Caldwellthat the state"can't build themselves out of the crisis that's going on in the prison system."

"The DOJ's intervention has done nothing to shift conditions inside Alabama prisons," said Hannah Riley of the Southern Center for Human Rights, who posted the inmates' list of demands on Twitter."They remain incredibly unsafe, inhumane, and exploitative.

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