Kim Chandler
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
Occupied Muscogee Creek Land
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.
Alabama Correctional Officers Respond to Mental Health Crisis With Deadly Force, Leaving at least Four Men Injured, Two in Critical Condition
On the morning of January 30, 2021, Mr. Ephan Moore, a man known to have a serious mental illness who is incarcerated at Donaldson Correctional Facility, experienced a mental health crisis resulting in an incident with Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) staff that correctional officers responded to with deadly and brutal force.
One of the witnesses to Moore’s beating described seeing him being struck in the head by a Sgt. Brown with an “ax-like” object that split Moore from the top of his skull all the way down his face. Moore, who was immediately rendered unconscious by the vicious blow, was then beaten and stomped by a group of four to five guards, according to the witness. The witness stated that if Moore is still alive it would be a “miracle.”
Alabama prison guards brutally beat Kinetic Justice, sending him to trauma unit
Alabama prison guards brutally beat Kinetic Justice, sending him to trauma unit
February 1, 2021
by Malik Washington
“The preservation of a racist structure in the U.S. has been closely tied to the preservation of class rule. The new reign of terror that arose in the Southern states after the formal ending of slavery was directed above all at controlling Black labor and preventing any possible working class alliance across racial lines (of which there were some indications in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, during the brief period known as Radical Reconstruction). But the institution of lynching – which was initially applied to block the extension of voting rights under the 15th Amendment – served not only to terrorize Black people; by its public and even festive character, it fostered complicity and conformity in the white population. The laws imposing racial segregation were thus re