'Common, Cruel' Violence Met by Indifference.

The article reports on gruesome details in a report on the Alabama prison system issued by the U.S. Justice Department on April 3, 2019. Topics discussed include findings of the report including the major prisons being at 182 percent of their capacity, the prevalence of contraband and prisoners sleeping in dorms in order to escape violence and the claim in the report of the state being deliberately indifferent to the risks prisoners face.