Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike – People’s World | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Prisoners at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Ala. in 2011. Cell phone footage of an attack in Donaldson that left one man dead surfaced this weekend. | Dave Martin/AP Last Friday, five days after Alabama prisoners launched a statewide labor strike, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey assured reporters that the head of the state’s beleaguered corrections […]
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The Stunning Neglect and Racist Politics Behind Alabama’s Prison Strike | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
On September 26th, prisoners in Alabama began a work stoppage to protest their living conditions and several of the state’s tough sentencing and parole laws. (It’s one of only seven states that do not pay prisoners for their labor.) In response to the strike, Kay Ivey, the state’s Republican governor, called the prisoners’ demands “unreasonable.” […]
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Court upholds Arkansas’ use of sedative in executions
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Arkansas’ use of the sedative midazolam in its lethal injections. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court judge’s ruling upholding the state’s execution process. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker in 2020 ruled that the state’s use […]
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