Beth Shelburne
@bshelburne
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Journalist, writer, investigative reporter, podcaster. Heart attack survivor, pal to assorted humans. Mostly brave except with roaches.
Birmingham, AL
Joined March 2009
Earwitness is available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to my 2-year investigation into Toforest Johnson’s conviction as I try to figure out how an innocent man has been trapped on Alabama’s death row for 25 years. #innocent #podcast #mustlisten
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Execution date set by @GovernorKayIvey for the chairman of @PHADP, the only death penalty abolition org founded on death row. I always look forward to their newsletters with Anthony Boyd aka "Ant" at the helm. Execution date: Oct 23. I hate this. 💔.
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My point in all this: a gun inside a prison is an extremely dangerous security failure. But in ADOC, it keeps happening, year after year with zero accountability. Surprising that no officers, prison staff, or incarcerated people have been shot. I fear it's only a matter of time.
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I covered a story in 2017 in which 2 men escaped from St. Clair prison with bolt cutters, a hacksaw & a gun. One of the men called me while on the run & said an officer sold him the gun. The officer was later charged with drug trafficking & got probation.
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It's been almost a year since two prisoners somehow slipped out of a maximum security state prison and since then, no details have been released by ADOC on how the prisoners pulled it off.
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9 firearms were confiscated from AL prisons in the year leading up to Shaw livestreaming with a gun from Donaldson prison. ADOC told Appleseed's reporter none of the firearms were found inside the prisons. The 9 were among 4921 total weapons ADOC seized in 2022, mostly knives.
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How Shaw got the gun is still unclear. ADOC released few details, in fact no one in government or law enforcement said anything. @AlaAppleseed reported, "Alabama prisons have deteriorated to the point where this incident was a blip in the news cycle."
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It’s been eleven days since Derrol Shaw walked the hallways of William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility carrying a semi-automatic pistol, and the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) has yet to...
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There was coverage in 2023 when an incarcerated man, Derrol Shaw, went on Facebook live with a gun, while wearing an officers uniform. Shaw spoke about brutal conditions inside Donaldson prison— "chaos, violence, and death, every single day," he said.
treadbylee.com
Chaos, violence, and death.
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There's no news coverage of incidents connected to these 21 weapons seized at prisons in the last year, but ADOC's stat reports list confiscations at max (Donaldson, Holman, Kilby) med (Bullock, Easterling, Elmore, Fountain) & min-security prisons (Red Eagle work release).
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The only way Alabama leaders will care about state prisons in perpetual chaos will be if multiple officers are killed in a riot. And maybe even then they still wouldn't care enough to do anything meaningful. They live in a fugue state, willingly and intentionally oblivious.
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Did anyone transcribe today's train wreck press conference? An incredible spew of nonsense word salad and lie after lie after moronic lie. I think he topped himself.
'I love low income housing. I made money on low income housing." #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace.
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JOURNALISTS covering politicians claims of "out of control crime," this is important, truthful context. 👇.
Reminder: Crime in the U.S. is at its lowest since 1961.
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RT @BerniceKing: Mike Brown. You matter so much. Before you were dehumanized, discarded and disregarded, you were loved. You still are. Bef….
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Alabama's contract review committee just put a hold on new contract for Bill Lunsford, the attorney recently reprimanded by a federal judge for using ChatGPT to fake citations in a prison lawsuit. This hold only impacts one Lunsford contract. He currently has dozens with ADOC.
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This is one of the most overcrowded prisons in the state. Latest data from June shows Staton incarcerates 1363 people in a building meant for 508. That's 268% over capacity. The entire system is 179% overcrowded, up from 173% one year ago. #massincarceration.
Alabama prison cancels visitation after incarcerated man tests positive for TB. ADOC says Staton Prison under "restricted movement" until testing complete. The man was transferred to Kilby Prison "where they have appropriate isolation cells," says ADOC spokesperson.
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Alabama prison cancels visitation after incarcerated man tests positive for TB. ADOC says Staton Prison under "restricted movement" until testing complete. The man was transferred to Kilby Prison "where they have appropriate isolation cells," says ADOC spokesperson.
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Hear me out: a bar called Hot Flash for middle aged ladies like me. AC stays on 68 year round. Fans blowing & complimentary cooling wraps for everyone. All cocktails on ice & served with one dose of hormone replacement therapy.
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