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For those who maybe interested, The Southern Center for Human Rights press release and a link to their court filing is available.
Will be interesting to see if this is start of a wave of suits over prison conditions.
State Circuit Judge Truman Hobbs ruling requires that Alabama pay Sue $177 Thousand back pay for a job that a finder of fact ( Federal Jury) ruled that she did not do in the first place.
I wonder if Judge Hobbs will require Post-Secondary to pay her 24 hrs per day prison education behind bars program?
This would not be more asinine than his ruling last week!
Hobbs is one of several Judges elected in Montgomery County whos job is to protect AEA’s interest
Isn’t that why we love electing judges so much?
His buddy Hardwick was first appointed. I would still rather take my chances with an electorate, no matter how uninformed, ‘than have an unelected judiciary. At least there is some recourse from bad decisions, no matter how slight