Judge says Alabama failed to protect prisoners from suicide

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — After 15 inmate suicides in 15 months, a federal judge says Alabama is putting prisoners in danger by failing to provide adequate suicide-prevention measures.
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued the findings Saturday. The judge wrote in a 210-page opinion that the risk of suicide is severe and imminent. He ordered the Department of Corrections to make multiple changes in the evaluation and monitoring of inmates.
Thompson in 2017 ruled state prisons provided &l