An Alabama prisoner was reportedly brutally beaten with a dumbbell in the same infamous prison where an inmate was “rented” and raped before being beaten to death.
Christpher Louis Latham Jr. was hit with the object at Staton Correctional Center in August, leaving him with a horrible swelling on the side of his head and two eyes closed.
Latham eventually recovered from those injuries and was sent to another Alabama prison, where he was beaten to death last month in a separate attack over a $10 debt, according to the Alabama Political Reporter.
The Staton facility made headlines this week after it emerged that another inmate, Daniel Williams, 22, was beaten, tortured and raped for several days last month, just two weeks before his scheduled release.
Williams, a father of two, was serving his one-year sentence for second-degree robbery when he was found unconscious in his cell.
He was taken off life support earlier this month and died four days later.
Christopher Louis Latham was beaten to death in an Alabama prison. Courtesy of Alabama Political Reporter
Meanwhile, Latham was jailed 18 years ago, when he was 22, for an armed robbery with a knife at a Waffle House restaurant. He was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, despite it being his first conviction for a serious crime.
While at Staton, Latham was attacked with a heavy weight by another inmate and hospitalized. Sources told the outlet that he was never tested for a brain hemorrhage despite the severity of his injuries.
He was eventually moved to the Ventress Correctional Center and brutally beaten again over a minor prison debt, according to the outlet.
Latham suffered another head injury and was put on life support before his family decided to take him off the ventilator.
Latham was transferred to another Alabama prison, where he was beaten again and died. Courtesy of Alabama Political Reporter Daniel Wiliams was sexually assaulted and beaten for days inside the Staton Correctional Center. Facebook / Daniel Williams
Latham, his uncle told APR, had lost his mother to cancer when he was a teenager and was beaten by his stepfather.
“I don’t apologize to Chris for what he did, but he didn’t deserve to die in prison,” Kevin Hyatt said.
Despite being a scarred man from the previous attack, prison officials told Hyatt that there were no protective custody options available at Ventress due to overcrowding.
Latham was less than two years away from his scheduled release.
Latham was first imprisoned at age 18 and was serving the final two years of his 20-year sentence. Courtesy of Alabama Political Reporter
Williams’ family also criticized Alabama corrections officials for a lack of oversight, telling APR they initially thought he died of a drug overdose.
But they were later shocked to learn that another inmate had “tied him up, beaten him, and rented him for two or three days.”
The horrific incidents come as the Justice Department is suing Alabama for failing to curb extreme violence at the hands of guards and other inmates at its correctional facilities.
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