Six families whose loved ones died in Alabama prisons have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the state's department of corrections, saying their family members' bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies.

Agolia Moore was shocked to get a call telling her that her son was found dead in an Alabama prison of a suspected drug overdose. She had spoken to him to earlier that evening and he was doing fine, talking about his hope to move into the prison’s honor dorm, Moore said.

When his body arrived at the funeral home, after undergoing a state autopsy, the undertaker told the family that the 43-year-old’s internal organs were missing. The family said they had not given permission for his organs to be retained or destroyed.

Moore said her daughter and other son drove four hours to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where the autopsy had been performed, and picked up a sealed red bag containing what they were told was their brother’s organs. They buried the bag along with him.

Six families, who had loved ones die in the state prison system, have filed lawsuits against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections and others, saying their family members’ bodies were returned to them missing internal organs after undergoing state-ordered autopsies. The families crowded into a Montgomery courtroom Tuesday for a brief status conference in the consolidated litigation.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    923·
    4 months ago

    this seems like one of those things we would say if we are not wearing those shoes.

    i think if i was waiting for an organ to save my life i dont give a fuck where it came from, as long as its legal.

    i wouldnt be pissed it was from some poor convict in a conservative state… id be pissed someone stole organ

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        143·
        4 months ago

        when you work with dying people sometimes its hard to see the humor. especially when those statements are actually heard without sarcasm, like ‘i dont want an organ from black person’

        • solsangraalEnglish
          152·
          4 months ago

          i hope you tell those people “you’ll get the organ that’s compatible, and you’re not going to know from whom it came. or we can take you off the list, your call”

    • solsangraalEnglish
      131·
      4 months ago

      yea, i was joking dude.

      when you get a transplant, they don’t tell you anything about where it came from unless the donor family specifically tells them to let you know. which these particular alabamans wouldn’t do

        • solsangraalEnglish
          101·
          4 months ago

          i get it. one of my closest friends is a TX patient, and it was not a smooth road. sometimes you just have to find humor somewhere, because you can only cry so much before there’s nothing left