Wearing shirts showing their dead sons, brothers and fathers, eight families flocked to a Montgomery courtroom on Tuesday afternoon to demand accountability for their loved ones, whose bodies were returned after autopsies missing organs.
About 16 people turned out on behalf of the eight men, all of whom were inmates in the Alabama prison system when they died. Each had an autopsy performed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Following their autopsies, the men’s bodies were returned to their families missing internal organs.
The families of Arthur Olen Stapler, Jim William Kennedy, Anthony Perez Brackins, Kelvin Lamar Moore, Charles Singleton, Jerry Hammond, Mohamad Osman, and Barry Culver are each suing the Alabama Department of Corrections, the University of Alabama system which operates the University of Alabama at Birmingham and its medical school, as well as various people associated with those institutions…