Episode 01
AN ALABAMA PROBLEM
ABOUT THE SERIES
The buildings are tucked away down rural roads, surrounded by gates and fences wrapped in barbed wire. The public is not allowed beyond the visitation yard, and communication with the free world is monitored.
Upwards of 20,000 people live in Alabama’s prisons, a system that siphons more than half a billion tax dollars every year, and yet it can be difficult to know what goes on inside.
Recently, the U.S. Justice Department gave us a clearer picture.
EPISODES
MEET THE HOST
WBHM’s Mary Scott Hodgin is the host and journalist behind Deliberate Indifference.
Hodgin started covering Alabama's prison system while reporting on mental health care for incarcerated people, which had been declared “horrendously inadequate” by a federal judge in 2017. She continued to follow the story after U.S. justice officials detailed rampant violence and sexual assault inside state correctional facilities.
