Nation IN BRIEF : ALABAMA : Prison to Create Female Chain Gangs
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Alabama’s prison system is preparing to snap shackles around the ankles of female prisoners, creating female chain gangs in the state that revived male leg-iron crews last year. Prison officials said the female chain gangs would help resolve lawsuits from male inmates challenging the exclusively male work units. Stephen Dees, the warden at Julia Tutwiler State Prison for Women near Montgomery, Ala., is developing the chain-gang policy. Women could be working in leg irons as early as June.
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