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WETUMPKA, Ala. For a female inmate, there are few places worse than the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women.
Corrections officers have raped, beaten and harassed women inside the aging prison here for at least 18 years, according to an unfolding Justice Department investigation. More than a third of the employees have had sex with prisoners, which is sometimes the only currency for basics like toilet paper and tampons.
But Tutwiler, whose conditions are so bad that the federal government says they are most likely unconstitutional, is only one in a series of troubled prisons in a state system that has the second-highest number of inmates per capita in the nation.
Now, as Alabama faces federal intervention and as the Legislature is weighing its spending choices for the coming year, it remains an open question whether the recent reports on Tutwiler are enough to prompt reform.
Yes, we need to rectify the crimes that happened at Tutwiler, but going forward its a bigger problem than just Tutwiler, said State Senator Cam Ward, a Republican from Alabaster who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Were dealing with a box of dynamite.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/troubles-at-womens-prison-test-alabama.html
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Clearly the 'leaders' of the State of Alabama could not care less.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)WTF.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)If they have this problem...They could have ALL female guards!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)A few days later, the GOP put him on the front burner.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/timeline_don_siegelman_1126.htm
Not trying to hijack your important OP, n2doc. Want to point out that the repuglian govner Fob James and AG William Pryor were the ones at the top of the heap 18 years ago.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)The idea is to force criminals to not be ...criminals. You don't punish crime with crime.