A former corrections officer said Alabama is no longer in control of its prisons and said he believes federal officials should intervene in the system.
Stacy George, a former officer at Limestone Correctional Facility, speaks to reporters outside the Alabama Department of Corrections headquarters in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. George, who recently resigned from the department, said Alabama is no longer in control of prisons because of overcrowding and low staffing.
He described coming into work and seeing blood trails through the prison, inmates threatening suicide with nooses or razor blades, and staffing levels so low that made it difficult to monitor the prison or care for inmates in need. George, a Republican, said he believes politics contributed to overcrowding. Politicians and judges seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders, he said, while there is political pressure to keep parole rates low.
The Alabama Department of Corrections, in a statement to al.com, said it could not comment on George's statement about staffing numbers
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