Lawsuit alleges inhumane conditions, neglect at Birmingham jail caused inmate’s death
The Birmingham City Jail is a warehouse for humans where inhumane conditions and neglect from staff caused a woman’s unnecessary death, according to a claim in a federal lawsuit. Attorneys ...
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Could St. Johns County's Old Jail, where MLK and several rabbis were jailed in 1964, be demolished?
For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...
'Repeated failures' at jail where three men died
Three prisoners found hanging in their cells in the space of three weeks died in an "overwhelmed" jail, a jury has found. Anthony Binfield, Rolandas Karbauskas and David Richards were inmates at HMP ...
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Man faces life in prison
An Amsterdam man was sentenced to life in prison last week after he pleaded guilty to murdering his cellmate in the Jefferson County jail more than a year ago. At a sentencing Thursday, Common Pleas ...