al prisons like a “third world country with a concrete floor”; ex correctional officer calls for feds to step in

[butters]

“The Alabama Department of Corrections is not in control of any prison in Alabama and hasn't been for a while,” Stacy George, who recently resigned after 13 1/2 years at Limestone Correctional Facility, said.

George, who ran for governor in 2014 and 2022, spoke to reporters and relatives of prisoners outside the Department of Corrections headquarters, saying he wanted people to hear the truth about what was going on inside. George recently resigned because of complications from an injury.

He described coming into work and seeing blood trails through the prison, inmates threatening suicide with nooses or razor blades, and staffing levels so low that made it difficult to monitor the prison or care for inmates in need.

“We have to treat people like human beings. Everybody’s in danger — the officers, the incarcerated individuals," George said.

George said sometimes there would be nine officers working in the prison that houses 2,200 inmates. He said there should be about 35. “There could be people bleeding to death in the cell and nobody even know it for hours,” George said.

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[SubzeroGirl]

A concrete floor? Now that’s what I call alarming. Do you know how much people pay to have concrete floors installed in their homes. Crime really does pay.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Concrete is bad for your feet and back.
I couldn't care less about prisoners tho. Sucks to be them.

 

[Dribble]

Profitable businesses do not care...and prisons are very profitable

 

[JohnEngelman]

Joseph Stalin demonstrated that a prison system can be run at a profit to the government. Most of the people in his prisons were political prisoners who did not deserve to be there at all. Nevertheless, the system would work for criminals. I recommend the thorough exploitation of prison labor, the frequent use of capital and corporal punishment, and the end to educational and recreational opportunities.

 

[JohnEngelman]

Profitable businesses do not care...and prisons are very profitable

Prisons should be profitable. Convicts have debts to pay society.

 

[LincolnDuncan]

I'm guessing that you have no real experience with the criminal justice system

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I got a ticket a couple of times. Once a cop threatened to take me to jail but he was never actually gonna.
I am very careful. If they ever catch me it's gonna be pure luck or I just got tired and either made a mistake or turned myself in. I'm sorta betting on them getting lucky but far enough in the future I'm not worried about it. If I see the inside of a cell for more than a night I'd be surprised. And man, that one night would piss me off. I got shit to do.