A work stoppage by state inmates that started three weeks ago to demand changes in Alabama’s overcrowded, violent, and understaffed prisons has ended, the Alabama Department of Corrections said today.
The prisons are resuming regular meal service, regular inmate movement, and inmate programs, the ADOC said.
“These three weeks have been very challenging for the staff at ADOC, and I am very proud of the way they have risen to that challenge,” ADOC Commissioner John Hamm said in a press release. “The daily operations of the state’s correctional facilities involve many moving pieces, and it takes a huge effort under the best circumstances to ensure those pieces work together smoothly.
Inmates stopped doing the unpaid work that keeps prisons functioning, such as food, janitorial, and laundry services. Prisons reduced food service to two meals a day and restricted inmate movement during the strike.on Friday. Organizers placed tombstones on the white marble steps to represent the men who died in Alabama prisons from suicides, murders and overdoses, according to the Associated Press.
“Men are being murdered. Men are overdosing. Men are taking their own lives,” said Eric Buchanon, a former inmate who does prison ministry, according to AP. “Somebody said, ‘Well, how can we stop people from taking their own lives?’ Well, if you had enough officers operating the prisons, who could monitor these men like they are supposed to, that would help.’”
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