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Incarcerated Organizer Airlifted to Hospital Following Attack by Prison Guards
The beatings follow a lawsuit by the Justice Department against the prison for failing to provide adequate protection from violence.
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Tensions were higher than usual at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama early on the morning of January 30. A couple of days prior, guards had attacked and choked an elderly incarcerated man, Cat Diamond, in the cafeteria under the reportedly false pretense that he had gotten in line for a second meal.
That morning, Robert Earl Council, an incarcerated organizer who is also known as Kinetik Justice, questioned Officer Griffin about the beating, witnesses said. Officer Griffin called for reinforcements and Sgt. âShakedownâ Brown, Sgt. Binder, and Officer Milton liberally maced the area.
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FILE - In this Thursday, April 23, 2009, file photo, a correctional officer walks inside a fence past inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Ala. The Alabama prison system says it has asked the FBI to help investigate a violent altercation at the facility on Jan. 30, 2021, that hospitalized two officers and two inmates, including a well-known prison rights activist. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File) February 09, 2021 - 6:51 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Three Alabama correctional officers are on leave as the FBI helps to investigate a prison altercation that hospitalized two officers and two inmates, including a well-known prison rights activist, the state prison system said Monday.
FBI launches probe after Alabama inmate activist injured February 9, 2021 at 10:24 pm FILE - In this Thursday, April 23, 2009, file photo, a correctional officer walks inside a fence past inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Ala. The Alabama prison system says it has asked the FBI to help investigate a violent altercation at the facility on Jan. 30, 2021, that hospitalized two officers and two inmates, including a well-known prison rights activist. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Three Alabama correctional officers are on leave as the FBI helps to investigate a prison altercation that hospitalized two officers and two inmates, including a well-known prison rights activist, the state prison system said Monday.
Brutal Alabama prison attack on incarcerated workers
By Devin Cole posted on February 3, 2021
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Events in this report happened on the next to last day of a month-long strike and “economic black-out” of Alabama state prisons, led by incarcerated workers and called by the Free Alabama Movement. For more on the strike, see Workers World, Dec. 4, 2020.
On the morning of Jan. 30, Alabama correctional officers and sergeants beat and critically injured two incarcerated workers, one of whom was having a mental health crisis, and injured a third. A fourth was beaten by a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) squad.