Thread by @theappeal

Last week, @nytimes published a few photos from more than 2,000 sent to @splcenter by someone identifying as a guard at an Alabama prison, deciding the majority were too horrific to publish. These are some of the photos @nytimes chose not to print. splinternews.com/the-leaked-pho…

"I can’t help but wonder if the public knows just how bad these men are treated."

Person identifying themselves as prison guard in letter accompanying more than 2,000 photos from inside an Alabama prison sent to @splcenter.

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Conditions in Alabama's prisons are notoriously bad. Homicides are 600% higher than the national average. People are placed in solitary confinement not for disciplinary infractions, but to maintain order.

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But horrific prison conditions are not unique to Alabama or the South. In California, more than 200 incarcerated people recently went on a hunger strike to protest being held in indefinite solitary confinement & brutality by prison guards. theappeal.org/corcoran-state…

Prisons continue to use solitary confinement, a form of torture. In New Mexico, which uses solitary confinement at one of the highest rates in the nation, earlier this year, two people held in solitary confinement died by suicide on the same day. theappeal.org/in-1-day-new-m…

Earlier this year during the polar vortex, when New York City experienced one of the coldest winters on record, people incarcerated in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were without heat, hot water, lights & electricity for a week. theappeal.org/mdc-brooklyn-j…

You can read many more articles on prison conditions at theappeal.org, where you can also sign up for our daily newsletter on criminal justice issues, The Daily Appeal.