Week 4 Discussion Forum – Protecting Prisoner Rights
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After a two-year civil rights investigation, the Department of Justice released their report on the conditions of prisons in the State of Alabama. The report, which was made public on Wednesday, April 2, 2019, found that the state of Alabama routinely violated the rights of prisoners by failing to protect them from violence. It noted that the nature of the violence was considered to be cruel and unusual and a violation of prisoners Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. Lawmakers in the state of Alabama were given 49 days to address the issues in the report or face the possibility of a federal civil rights lawsuit.
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