{"id":11606,"date":"2011-12-01T15:06:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11606"},"modified":"2011-12-01T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:53:13","slug":"inmates-fatal-beating-reveals-brutal-prison-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11606","title":{"rendered":"Inmates Fatal Beating Reveals Brutal Prison Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALABAMA &#8211; <strong>Rocrast Mack<\/strong>, 24, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mack<\/strong> was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Severely overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed, the state\u2019s prisons have become incubators of disturbing levels of inmate-on-inmate violence, according to prisoner advocacy and civil rights groups that work in the state. Equally troubling is a sharp rise in allegations of brutality by Alabama corrections officers, these groups say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a dramatic increase in the number of complaints coming into our office concerning guard-on-inmate assaults,\u201d said <strong>Bryan Stevenson<\/strong>, executive director of EJI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysical assaults of inmates by guards have become an accepted part of the culture in a lot of Alabama prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALABAMA &#8211; Rocrast Mack, 24, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. Severely overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}