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https://news.yahoo.com/alabama-father-dies-alleged-beating-090042503.html

Daniel Terry Williams, 22, was serving a one-year sentence for assault and theft charges as part of a plea agreement, and he was set to be released on Nov. 9 the same day he died, according to Jefferson County court records and his family. He had only been at Staton for about two weeks following a transfer to the Elmore, Alabama, correctional facility, when he was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted.

The warden also allegedly told Bostic that Williams had been hospitalized due to a drug overdose on Oct. 22, she said.

Bostic said she and Terry initially thought their son had "gotten into something bad" at the prison after Bostic's call with the warden, but when they arrived at the hospital where the 22-year-old was receiving treatment, they were shocked at what they discovered.

"He was black and blue from head to toe. He had restraint marks on his wrists. He had indents, almost, in his head from being beaten," Bostic recalled. "So, my husband, Terry, called the warden and said, 'Why the helldid you tell me my son died of an overdose when it was obviously an assault?' And the warden said it's under investigation, and that's all we've heard from them since."

The Justice Department sued Alabama over the condition of its prisons in 2020 after a federal investigation revealed that "Alabama violated and is continuing to violate the Constitution because its prisons are riddled with prisoner-on-prisoner and guard-on-prisoner violence."

I know "think of the criminals" isn't an easy sale to voters in this country, but something's got to be done about the state of our prisons (particularly in problematic states like Alabama).