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This week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama for having poor prison conditions. The Justice Department called their state prisons as one of the most understaffed and violent in the country.
“The Department of Justice conducted a thorough investigation of Alabama’s prisons for men and determined that Alabama violated and is continuing to violate the Constitution because its prisons are riddled with prisoner-on-prisoner and guard-on-prisoner violence. The violations have led to homicides, rapes, and serious injuries,” Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.
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