‘He didn’t make it:’ Families tell lawmakers of loved ones’ deaths in Alabama’s prisons

Tim Mathis had two conversations with his son Chase, incarcerated at Elmore Correctional Facility, on June 4. The last one ended around 8:30 p.m. that evening.

“Last thing he told me was he was going to bed,” Tim Mathis said. “He was going to get on his bunk, he loved me, and he would call me in the morning.”

At 10 p.m., Tim Mathis said, the prison warden called him.

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