The University of Alabama at Birmingham, which does autopsies for the Alabama Dept. of Corrections, is also under scrutiny.
In December, the family of Brandon Clay Dotson filed a federal lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections and several other entities, alleging that upon receiving Dotson’s body, it was in an advanced state of decomposition and missing his heart. CBS News later reported in January that another claim was added to the lawsuit by the family of Charles Edward Singleton, who also passed away in an Alabama prison.
Singleton’s daughter asserted that when her father’s body was returned in 2021, all of his internal organs were missing. Attorney Lauren Fariano, representing the Dotson family, emphasized to the outlet that these incidents suggest a troubling pattern.
Now, as Andscape reports, there is an additional case with similar points. Kelvin Moore, a 43-year-old Black man, allegedly died in the Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama of a fentanyl overdose. However, when his body was delivered to the care of his mother in Mobile, the family mortician made a gruesome discovery: All of Moore’s organs had been removed. Because Moore died in prison, his body was first sent to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where autopsies for the Alabama DOC are performed.