After Inmate Suicides, Alabama Prisons On Trial
A federal judge already has ruled that mental health care for inmates in Alabama's prisons is "horrendously inadequate." Now he's looking at the system's response to 15 suicides in the past 15 months.
A federal judge in Montgomery is again hearing arguments over efforts to stop a wave on inmate suicides in Alabama's overcrowded and understaffed prison system
U.S District Judge Myron Thompson is hearing testimony on whether the state to 15 suicide deaths in the past 15 months.
