Six families whose loved ones died in Alabama prisons have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the state's department of corrections, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies.

Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose. She had spoken to him to earlier that evening and he was doing fine, talking about his hope to move into the prison’s honor dorm, Moore said.

When his body arrived at the funeral home, after undergoing a state autopsy, the undertaker told the family that the 43-year-old’s internal organs were missing. The family said they had not given permission for his organs to be retained or destroyed.

Moore said her daughter and other son drove four hours to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where the autopsy had been performed, and picked up a sealed red bag containing what they were told was their brother’s organs. They buried the bag along with him.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members’ bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    1133·
    3 months ago

    Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose.

    So they killed him.

    In America. I thought i was done being shocked at or prisons but killing and harvesting organs (ostensibly for someone rich)… Fuuuuck we need to start eating rich people like… now.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1002·
    3 months ago

    oh man i would be PISSSED if i got an organ transplant and it turned out to be from an alabaman

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      923·
      3 months ago

      this seems like one of those things we would say if we are not wearing those shoes.

      i think if i was waiting for an organ to save my life i dont give a fuck where it came from, as long as its legal.

      i wouldnt be pissed it was from some poor convict in a conservative state… id be pissed someone stole organ

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          143·
          3 months ago

          when you work with dying people sometimes its hard to see the humor. especially when those statements are actually heard without sarcasm, like ‘i dont want an organ from black person’

          • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
            152·
            3 months ago

            i hope you tell those people “you’ll get the organ that’s compatible, and you’re not going to know from whom it came. or we can take you off the list, your call”

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        131·
        3 months ago

        yea, i was joking dude.

        when you get a transplant, they don’t tell you anything about where it came from unless the donor family specifically tells them to let you know. which these particular alabamans wouldn’t do

          • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
            101·
            3 months ago

            i get it. one of my closest friends is a TX patient, and it was not a smooth road. sometimes you just have to find humor somewhere, because you can only cry so much before there’s nothing left

    • Vanon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      What is this? Death Warrant (the 1990 prison action film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme)?

      With help from Priest and Hawkins, Burke breaks into the infirmary and finds several boxes labeled “medical waste” that are actually full of human organs.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    41·
    3 months ago

    Alabama pulling slightly ahead in the “terrible prison system” contest, but I have faith that one of our other garbage states (esp Texas or Tennessee) will do something just as shocking any minute.

  • Dragomus@lemmy.world
    381·
    3 months ago

    I read the title, and it left me thinking it was about Ukrainian POWs returned from Russia without their organs, like I read about recently.

    It seems the US does not even need such circumstances.

  • n0m4n@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    My body is already being donated. If everyone did that, the profit would disappear, and the internal body parts would not.

  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

    The fact that things like this happen in the US shows how corrupt lawmakers and the judiciary have become.

    In the US, if you don’t have money, your life is worthless, according to lawmakers and the courts. And, according to the latest Supreme Court decision signed off on by hypocritical Christian Amy Coney Barret, you can be a criminal just because of being poor: yep, that’s what fake imaginary jesus would have definitely wanted.

    She obviously doesn’t believe the bible fairy-tale on some level or she wouldn’t have agreed with the ruling.

    Here is her disgusting hypocrisy on full-blast, the supposed Christian, ruling as jesus would, that the poor are criminals for sleeping: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf. (She did not write it, but as a Pro-life in all cases Christian, the hypocrisy is fucking astounding.)

    It’s unbelievably disgusting. Even if she knows jesus is fake, it’s cruel and evil. I am mentioning this case because it sets the tone for how people are treated in the US. If a poor person can be locked up for being unable to stay awake, of course they can pull organs out from a criminal without permission. Why not? They can do anything they want until global warming finally comes with its revenge, destroying the planet for the idiocy of the upper-class selfish myopic morons who demand it with their selfishness.