correctional officers

Plea documents in the case against a former Alabama jailer charged in the death of an inmate says officers intentionally kept the conditions “as filthy as possible” in an effort to increase their salaries and the jail budget. Former Walker County lieutenant Benjamin Shoemaker agreed last month to plead guilty to three federal counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.

Two former corrections officers in Alabama have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges in the death of a mentally ill inmate. Court documents say the incarcerated man, Tony Mitchell, died of hypothermia and sepsis after being locked up at Walker County Jail in 2023.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House of Representatives has approved a pay raise for correctional officers as Alabama faces a federal court order to…