Alabama inmates sleep on floors as jails overcrowded: ‘It’s inhumane.’
Updated Dec 18, 2020;
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Each night for six weeks Dylan Garrard fell asleep beside a toilet on the concrete floor of a jail cell in northeast Alabama.
“The mats are so thin you can feel the concrete through them,” Garrard said in a phone interview a couple of hours after he was released on Tuesday. “They’re about as thick as a kindergarten mat, but some of the foam is missing.”
Garrard, who is 25, said he was one of three men in his cell in the Jackson County Jail. But there were only two beds, so jail staff gave him a mat. There were dozens more like him.