Families of incarcerated Alabamians whose organs were harvested after their deaths demanded a meeting with University of Alabama Birmingham officials Tuesday as delays in their civil lawsuit continue to mount.
Speaking after a court hearing in Montgomery, in which UAB sought to have some counts dismissed, relatives said they wanted administrators to listen to stories of their relatives and demanded justice for their loved ones.
“If the attorneys for the Alabama Department of Corrections and UAB want to prolong this, they are the only ones who are benefiting financially,” said Simone Moore, whose brother Kelvin Moore died in Limestone Correctional Facility in 2023. “I don’t know what they are telling the trustees at UAB, but I believe the trustees should summon the attorneys and say to the attorneys, ‘Give us justification why you are prolonging this process and putting off the inevitable?’”…