Prisoner Discusses Living Incarcerated With HIV and Violence

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Bullock Prison in Union Springs, Alabama, opened in 1987 and is designed to hold 919 prisoners.1 Alabama Department of Corrections currently has the number of people imprisoned there at 1,512.2 Alabama prisons are currently, and consistently, around 70 percent overcapacity.3

In recent weeks, multiple prisoners from Bullock have reached out to do interviews with me about the prison conditions and their lives. Over the coming weeks and months, those...