The Alabama Department of Corrections is caught up in a lawsuit, with the DOJ. To give you the short version, the lack of staff has resulted in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, in Alabama prisons, that violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, the DOJ lawsuit alleges.
History will repeat itself. When lawsuits are filed in one state, the others take notice. Back when TDC was dealing with Ruiz Vs Estelle and all the other lesser known lawsuits, that went with it, the Tucker Prison in Arkansas, Angola in Louisiana, The Parchman Farm in Mississippi and many others were dealing with very similar lawsuits. These are just the ones I know about. I’m almost certain there were others, that I’ve missed.
Get you some popcorn, sit back, kick off your shoes, relax and watch the show. You’ve got a front row seat. Mark my word. The same issues facing Alabama are coming soon to a Texas prison, near you.
Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma and many other states are dealing with major staff shortages, in state prisons. William Wayne Justice and David Ruiz might be dead, but there are 100,000 convicts and countless federal judges, that would like to fill their shoes.
Once again, TDC will get spanked in the courtroom. You will be able to hear them kicking and screaming from Beaumont, to El Paso and all point in between. When will this happen? Your guess is a good as mine, but it will happen.
There’s not a lot of difference between the mentally of a modern day TDCJ administrator and a career criminal. Both are arrogant. Both have an over inflated opinion of their own self worth. Both think the rules are for other people. Both think they can get away with anything they want to, because they are too slick to get caught. You don’t meet very many convicts, in prison, that thought they were going to end up there. If they thought they were going to get caught, most would have gone about it a different way.
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