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U.S. Accuses Alabama State Prisons Of Failing To Protect Inmates From Abuse

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According to a report by Reuters, on Wednesday, the US Justice Department accused Alabama's state prisons of regularly violating the constitutional rights of inmates by failing to protect them from violence and sexual abuse. Prosecutors and the country's top civil rights law enforcement official reportedly claim to possess evidence that the state was violating prisoners' Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The letter to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey read, "We have reasonable cause to believe that Alabama routinely violates the constitutional rights of prisoners housed in the Alabama’s prisons by failing to protect them from prisoner-on-prisoner violence and prisoner-on-prisoner sexual abuse, and by failing to provide safe conditions."

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