The Justice Department issued a scathing report on Alabama's prisons on Wednesday, saying the state is violating the Constitution by failing to protect inmates from violence and sexual abuse and by housing them in unsafe and overcrowded facilities
The department gave Alabama 49 days to begin to correct the violations or possibly face another federal lawsuit.
The report lays out in stark detail a culture of violence across the state's 13 prisons for men, which together house roughly 16,000 inmates in among the nation's most overcrowded conditions. Rapes happen day and night in all corners of the prisons — dormitories, cells, showers and recreation areas — the report said. But prison officials often a blind eye, the Justice Department said.
The prison system documented 24 prisoner homicides between January 2015 and June 2018, but federal officials said that number was an undercount: They identified three more, and said the state sometimes classifies violent deaths as arising from natural causes. "The Justice Department hopes to work with Alabama to resolve the Department's concerns," Dreiband wrote. The letter included dozens of recommendations , including the immediate hiring of 500 new corrections officer and eventual addition of 1,500 more.
That statement of cooperation is undercut by something else in the letter: The department says it still can't determine whether Alabama's prisons are protecting prisoners from excessive force and sexual abuse from staff because its petition to enforce its subpoena for relevant documents remains pending in court.
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