109 people died from overdose inside Alabama prisons, the leading cause behind natural deaths, according to ADOC's closed death investigations in 2024. Almost half the deaths, or 45%, were attributed to drugs, homicide or suicide. #massincarceration

https://x.com/bshelburne/status/1868505321385218356

#bethshelburne #Alabama #overdose #deaths @abolition

When grief becomes rage

Sandy Ray's fight for accountability in her son's prison beating death

> Five years ago, Sandy Ray and her family buried her son. Steven Davis. Stevie, as she called him, was 35 when he was beaten to death by correctional officers inside Alabama’s William E. Donaldson Prison.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bethshelburne/p/when-grief-becomes-rage

This Week Injustice

The Alabama hypocrisy edition

> Marshall freed a former white cop convicted of shooting and killing a Black man after just two years in prison. This comes after Marshall wrested the case from Montgomery’s DA and brokered a plea deal, disregarding the jury’s decision to convict Aaron Cody Smith, and ultimately allowing Smith’s sentence to be reduced to time served, against the wishes of the DA who prosecuted the case and the victim’s family.

https://bethshelburne.substack.com/p/this-week-injustice-feb-25-2024

I don't think he'll make it out alive
The cruel reality of having a son in Alabama's prison system
https://bethshelburne.substack.com/p/i-dont-think-hell-make-it-out-alive
#criminal #justice #reporting #Shelburne #BethShelburne #Alabama #prisons

Alabama's death valley

Donaldson prison's chaos continues under the nose of visiting Feds

https://bethshelburne.substack.com/p/alabamas-death-valley