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Alabama is Letting a Man Starve in Solitary and Calling it “Care”

Day 23 of the Swift Justice hunger strike exposes ADOC’s scripted indifference, medical stonewalling, and a state’s refusal to document a life-or-death crisis.

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Dec 13, 2025
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Alabama’s prison system is not “in crisis.” A crisis is an exception—an interruption of normal operations. What is happening inside the Alabama Department of Corrections is far more damning than that…

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