Died: January 4, 2021. KAY Ullrich – lifelong nationalist and former SNP MSP, who has died aged 77 – revelled in her reputation as a glamorous raconteur who would hold court with a glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Innately flamboyant, she loved to recall how she walked down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with Sean Connery at the opening of the Scottish Parliament. But no-one who knew her ever mistook her conviviality for frivolousness, or her penchant for stylish clothes for a lack of substance. Ullrich was a woman whose political convictions were at her core; a woman who, having escaped an abusive marriage, went on to forge a career as a social worker, specialising in child protection.
Federal court could tell Alabama how to fix its prisons
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
A dorm at Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Ala., is shown in April 2016 holding 300 prisoners.Julie Bennett/AL.com.
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Gov. Kay Ivey has consistently said that “an Alabama solution” is the way to fix the state’s overcrowded, understaffed, and violent state prisons, but that won’t happen without new input from a federal court.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state in U.S. District Court in Birmingham on Wednesday, alleging that Alabama violates the constitutional rights of prisoners by failure to protect them from assaults and sexual abuse from other inmates, excessive force by correctional officers, and failure to provide safe and sanitary conditions.