A federal lawsuit filed Thursday by Brandon Dotson's family says that when his body was returned to his family, it was missing a heart and was in a state of decomposition.
  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    103·
    11 months ago

    So they say they don’t perform autopsies, and the warden was surprised they wanted the body. Either they’re lying about the autopsy or there’s some sick fuck just cutting up bodies and taking parts as souvenirs.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
    103·
    11 months ago

    Brandon Clay Dotson was found dead at Ventress Correctional Facility on November 16. It wasn’t immediately clear what charge Dotson was serving time for.

    It wasn’t immediately clear what charge Dotson was serving time for.

    We don’t know what he did, but he died in prison over it.

    This is fucking terrifying.

  • LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.worksDeutsch
    65·
    11 months ago

    What the fuck? The headline sounds strange, but the article is so absurd I would find it a bit over the top if it was a movie.

    WTF is going on in those prisons?

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
      43·
      11 months ago

      The Chinese prisons get away with it so now ours are trying a bit of organ harvesting. Not like they need them anymore anyway right?

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        27·
        11 months ago

        Not condoning this by any means, but everyone ought to be an organ donor. I find the people who refuse on the grounds of “I don’t like the idea of my organs being harvested…” are demonstrating insufferable selfishness. Multiple lives can be saved from one donor. And you’ll be dead anyway! You won’t care then…

        Especially all bikers should be mandatory organ donors.

        • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
          23·
          11 months ago

          Fully agree and am an organ donee since I won’t be needing them anyhow. I know your agreed with me but I’ll say it again for others who might be confused.

          The issue is consent here, I know a lot of people don’t understand that word but the issue is he nor his family said they could have the heart, but the heart was taken anyway.

            • GONADS125@lemmy.world
              4·
              11 months ago

              I specifically said I wasn’t justifying what happened here. My point was just an aside on the importance of organ donation.

              I don’t condone stealing people’s organs. What happened here was clearly fucked up.

        • Alter_Id@kbin.social
          10·
          11 months ago

          Eh, respecting peoples’ bodily autonomy isn’t that difficult. Not doing so causes way more problems in the world so far as I see it.

        • FluorideMind@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          That article needs to compare those statistics with other types of events. I suspect it may just be from an increase in population during events.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        24·
        11 months ago

        There’s zero chance this guy’s heart was transplanted. Heart donations require minimal warm ischemic time. No way they found him dead and decided to steal his heart, and if they forcibly removed his heart for transplant, the surgical signs would make that obvious.

        China gets away with it because it’s a state sanctioned program. The evidence is destroyed and families get back ashes.

        It’s far more likely they did an autopsy and then lost or kept the heart for some other reason. Maybe he was stabbed in the heart and they want to cover it up. If I had to guess, I’d say they were just grossly negligent and lost it. They returned the body in a state of decomposition. That’s egregious enough without imagining a shady cabal of prison heart transplant doctors.

        • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
          40·
          11 months ago

          Maybe if you would actually read the article

           In addition to prison officials, the lawsuit names the UAB Health System as defendants. The suit claims UAB’s School of Medicine obtained Dotson’s heart, and details a 2018 incident where medical students “noticed that a disproportionate number of the specimens they encountered during their medical training originated from individuals who had died in prison custody within the Alabama Department of Corrections.”

          • HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee
            4·
            11 months ago

            Does that mean that’s what actually happened or is that just what the family is accusing them of in the suit

            • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
              7·
              11 months ago

              Well, I suspect they have some evidence if they are naming the institution in the lawsuit.

          • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Still not a transplanted organ. That would fall under the “kept it for someother reason” category I mentioned.

            • koraro@lemmy.world
              11·
              11 months ago

              No but the market for body parts to be used for research or education is bery underregulated in the US. They could be selling organs just not for transplants. John Oliver just did an episode on it actually.

    • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
      11·
      11 months ago

      Sounds to me like they are modern day resurrectionists for the local med school. I really hope the FDA takes a closer look at the med school’s procurement and documentation of human specimens.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        I’d say every for-profit prison should be put under a microscope to find all the shit they do.

        But that will never happen 'cause it would force the states/feds to revamp everything.

  • Cap@lemm.ee
    45·
    11 months ago

    I would love to see the follow up to this. To see some sort of justice or reform. Sadly I feel this will change nothing and things will continue to get worse…

    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      21·
      11 months ago

      I’m going to upvote you, because I like your anger. But that would probably be a terrible idea to allow convicted killers and rapists out on the street who have not been rehabilitated.

      I wouldn’t argue with the possibility of temporarily releasing nonviolent criminals. 

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            “Dumbest thing [you] ever heard” is entirely different from “completely impossible,” you know.

              • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Obviously it’s “possible” to unlock all the doors and walk away.

                Thank you for admitting you were wrong.

                Whatcha gonna do with all the actual, legitimate violent criminals who just got dumped back into society all at once?

                How the fuck should I know? It wasn’t my idea, nor did I endorse it.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Every prison should be replaced with facilities for drug treatment, support groups, and job training. Give those people something to do and they won’t be a threat to anyone, and that burden on society will disappear in a couple generations because they’re not passing it on to their offspring.

        But of course that doesn’t directly make money for the people who own the system, so good luck convincing the folks in charge to make a change.