Comments on: Over 300 Officers Conduct Contraband Shakedown At Holman Prison

By: sos

sos — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:55:08 +0000

Prison is the breeding ground for your worst nightmares. If you think they are being coddled them you have no idea what it’s like. The officers are brutal and are responsible for 99% me the contraband in the prisons bcs the visitors are thoroughly searched. There men and women locked up are not animals and deserve to do their time and be safe. But bcs they aren’t when they are released they become products me the system that has always been planted to the haves and not the have nots. Treat a man like an animal long enough and you’ll create that animal.

By: Trixie Delone Johnson

Trixie Delone Johnson — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:24:39 +0000

The guards are the ones bringing drugs and phones into the jail. Selling cell phones to inmates for $600 to $800.
They are also ignoring stabbings, fights, beatings, informing inmates when someone is getting released and orchestrating getting families to pay money on the final few days over and over to keep their loved one safe. The guards are even beating inmates to try to get them to fight back. I’d love to sit down with the governor.
Q person who is non- violent is likely to die in the prison system in Alabama.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:53:02 +0000

If many of the people in prison were concerned about “rights”, they’d not be where there at. The only rights that mattered to them were there own.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:55:04 +0000

“The harsh words of some will change should their kin ever enter a prison as an inmate.

DOJ just ruled two days ago that conditions in men’s prisons in Alabama violated their constitutional rights.”

My kin are no different from any other criminal, if they are convicted of a crime. Prisoners know right from wrong, kin or not, & their bad choice put them there. Quit feeling sorry for them. Many, many are repeat offenders, who just don’t get it, so quit feeling sorry for their refusal to live by the law, as most of us do. You should be feeling sorry for their innocent victims. I am tired of hearing about their rights, when it was themselves that put them there. I shed no tears for them not getting their constitutional rights.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 01:35:44 +0000

I agree that any visitors or correctional officer/employees should be charged if found to be introducing or encouraging contraband in any prison.

However, inmates have many more rights than 3 hots and a cot. Keep in mind they are humans who made mistakes and got caught. Many of them will enter society again and many will be rehabilitated and part of your communities.

The harsh words of some will change should their kin ever enter a prison as an inmate.

DOJ just ruled two days ago that conditions in men’s prisons in Alabama violated their constitutional rights.

Good job working on the contraband, now let’s see that same effort applied to improving the conditions for these man.

By: Missy

Missy — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:57:22 +0000

Thank you to Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.. that is my home county!!!

By: FL girl

FL girl — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 23:28:53 +0000

If this is all they got from that shake down, they need to shake a lot harder!

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:49:20 +0000

There is no excuse for the proliferation of drugs and other contraband entering state correctional institutions. It is one thing that make shift weapons are made in the prison, but visitors should be vigorously scrutinized when entering the facility,
If they are caught they should be permanently banned from visits and prosecuted.

If there are corrupt DOC officers caught allowing contraband into the prison they should be fired and prosecuted. Ii is a max security prison! The only phone conversations prisoners should be having are the ones through two way glass.

Visitors should be put on notice, you smuggle in contraband you will never enter this facility again for visits. IT IS PRISON! The ones that end up there should pay a heavy price. There is a blind eye being turned on this problem otherwise it wouldn’t be the problem that it is. Prisoners have rights – 3 hots and a cot – sound harsh? IT’S PRISON! QUIT CODDLING PRISONERS! WE AS TAXPAYERS DESERVE BETTER.