Employees charged in connection with death and assaults at Alabama jail
Montgomery, al. – Six other employees in an Alabama prison were charged with the death of a mentally ill -deceased man who died of hypothermia after being detained for two weeks in a concrete cell, while several of them were also accused in the assaults of other detainees.
The non -sealed indictment on Monday is the last series of accusations linked to the death of Tony Mitchell in 2023 after his imprisonment in Walker County. In total, 20 people were charged or guilty.
The last indictment accuses the six employees, including the captain of the prison and the supervisor, with a plot, alleging that they had sought to “illegally punish the prison in the prison for the perceived deficiencies of the prisoners”.
Five of the six are charged with having deprived of his rights, in particular the depriving of human conditions, shelters, sanitation and medical care.
“The offense resulted in bodily injuries and the death of the individual No. 1,” wrote the prosecutors in the accusation act, who did not refer to Mitchell that the individual n ° 1.
The indictment also details a series of other assaults in prison, and three of the police were accused of deprivation of rights for alleged assaults of other detainees.
One of the employees is accused of slamming the head of a person handcuffed in a cell floor. He and another employee are accused of having beaten an inmate who was resumed after an escape. Another is accused of having struck a sober inmate.
Two of the employees are accused of obstructing justice. The prosecutors said they had offered an inmate from food outside the prison to act as an “executor” in his dormitory and the assault of an 18 -year -old detainee. Prosecutors said they had later submitted a letter to the court which had falsely affirmed that “the applicator” had been a detainee model who had not shown any signs of assault.
Defense lawyers listed in the judicial archives did not immediately return emails asking for comments sent on Monday afternoon.
The death of Mitchell on January 26, 2023 highlighted the conditions and allegations of abuse in prison in Jasper, in Alabama.
Mitchell, 33, died after being brought from prison to an emergency room at the hospital with a body temperature of 72 degrees (22 degrees Celsius).
He had been placed in police custody two weeks earlier on January 12 after a parent asked the authorities to control him well-being because he seemed to have a mental break. The Walker County Sheriff’s Bureau said Mitchell had been arrested after shooting the deputies and running in the woods.
The prosecutors wrote in the indictment that for a large part of his two -week detention, Mitchell was detained in a concrete cell which serves as a drunk reservoir of prison without “nor coverage, mattress or clothing, and was regularly left naked on the naked concrete floor”. It was systematically covered with excrement and did not receive regular possibilities to take a shower or to use toilets, prosecutors wrote.
