On a spring day last year, the Alabama parole board split over the fate of Fredrick Bishop. But the board missed a key detail in the case: He was already dead.
    • BertramDitore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      8 months ago

      Totally agree. All this mind-bogglingly malicious treatment of prisoners makes even the lightest sentence a possible death-sentence. Prisoners are human beings, and deserve to be treated as such.

      I keep coming back to Dostoevsky’s line:

      “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

      -Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
    50·
    8 months ago

    Brandon Clay Dotson met a similar fate as Fredrick Bishop. Dotson, 43, was found dead at Ventress Correctional Facility on November 16 – the same day as his parole hearing.

    He, too, was denied.

    Dotson died in prison, and his body was eventually returned to his family following an autopsy at the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. His family later discovered he had been returned without a heart.

    Gotta wonder if there isn’t a link here between denying releases and selling body parts.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
    35·
    8 months ago

    As a kid I thought when someone got multiple life sentences his corpse would just stay in jail.

    I wasn’t the brightest kid. But so isn’t Alabama as it seems.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    I’m a bit more curious where the missing heart went, and how it got where it is now.