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Abstract: 

A Department of Justice Report issued of April 2, 2019, finds routine failure to protect inmates from other, more predatory inmates; failure to protect inmates from the sexual predations of other inmates, and more generally, failure to provide safe conditions. Staffing shortages and overcrowding are critical: Alabama’s prisons have a system-wide occupancy rate of 165%, yet employ only 1,072 out of 3,326 authorized correctional officers. Here, we summarize some of the main conclusions of the report, which are long standing, chronic, and about which the Alabama Department of Corrections has been extremely slow to address, if it addresses them at all.

Keywords: Alabama Prison System; Prisoner-on-Prisoner Violence; Overcrowding; Staff Shortages

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.