As two planned men’s mega prisons open, Alabama will close four older prisons. Alabama will wind up with more prison space overall. However, unless the number of inmates drops suddenly, the state system will still be well over capacity.
Alabama Department of Corrections Commissionerthat once the new prisons are completed and older ones are closed, there won’t be any net gain in the number of prisoners that can be housed.
But, Molman isn’t convinced. “Converting to cells is not going to make anything safer,” said Molman. “It’s a misconception that cells are going to make everything safer.” She said that Alabama has an external classification system to determine which prison someone should be housed in. But once someone gets there, the department doesn’t use an internal classification system—meaning an elderly inmate without a history of violence can be housed with a young, violent prisoner.
She described issues at St. Clair Correctional Facility, a prison that is designed with more cell space than dorms. Several years ago, she said, an inmate had a heart attack inside his cell; although the rest of the inmates were yelling for help, there were no guards nearby. When they finally came to check the cause of the commotion, the man was dead.
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