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Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept the conditions “as filthy as possible” in an effort to increase their salaries and the jail budget. Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

The wife of a 72-year-old veteran who was beaten to death by a cellmate in an Alabama jail has filed a civil rights lawsuit against three deputies working at the Macon County jail. The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the officers were made aware of the assault but ignored John Reed's cries and need for medical attention.

Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers. The result is “The Alabama Solution,” which premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Two corrections officers have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges related to the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia in jail. Tony Mitchell was arrested in 2023. He was kept naked in a concrete cell at the Walker County Jail with no bedding or running water for two weeks.

Two former corrections officers in Alabama have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in the death of a mentally ill inmate. Court documents say the incarcerated man, Tony Mitchell, died of hypothermia and sepsis after being locked up at Walker County Jail in 2023.

Former corrections officer Joshua Conner Jones has pleaded guilty to criminal charges for his role in the death of a mentally ill incarcerated man in Alabama. The plea deal says Tony Mitchell died of hypothermia and sepsis after being incarcerated at Walker County Jail in 2023.

A second Alabama jailer has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for her “minimal role” in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell.

A former corrections officer at the Walker County jail has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge in the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held naked in a concrete cell for two weeks.

Two inmates and a correctional officer were arrested Thursday after an inmate died in Elmore, Alabama, authorities said.

Three men have died after inmate-on-inmate assaults that took place earlier this month. Ian Rettig, 23, was one of the victims and was one day from being…