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Alabama Prisons Face Mental Health Judgment | Birmingham News
Alabama’s prisons face a major legal reckoning after an appeals court ruled mental healthcare conditions violate the Eighth Amendment, calling the system “horrendously inadequate” and finding the state acted with deliberate indifference. The court acknowledged sky-high suicide rates and systemic failures in treatment, but tempered remedies by rejecting full suicide-proof housing, reversing mandatory staffing mandates, and exempting one prison from key reforms. While the core injustice remains — a constitutional crisis over human dignity in custody — the ruling now complicates the path to…
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