Five Alabama families have filed lawsuits claiming the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Pathology removed the organs from dead inmates at the Alabama Department of Corrections without permission from their family members. /Gray News) - Five Alabama families have filed lawsuits claiming the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Pathology removed the organs from dead inmates at the Alabama Department of Corrections without permission from their family members.
Singleton, died Nov. 21, 2021, and according to the lawsuit, the chaplain of the facility called his daughter to notify her of the death and told her the Alabama Department of Corrections could handle the burial arrangements. But she was adamant that the family would claim Singleton’s body. While the family was viewing Singleton’s body, they were told there were “no organs in the body,” and none of the organs had been returned, “including but not limited to the brain. The body had been mutilated beyond the scope of a standard autopsy.”
The lawsuit said, “The small and large bowel with the exception of a portion of the rectum, appendix, pituitary, adrenal glands, and testicles were not received for examination.” Additionally, the “pericardial sac not received for examination.” The lawsuit said four days after Kennedy’s death, Limestone’s chaplain contacted Kennedy’s brother to notify him of his death.
Kennedy’s daughter emailed Limestone’s warden asking for the organs back and never got a response, according to the lawsuit. The next day, UAB received Brackins’ body to perform an autopsy. The lawsuit said the Brackins’ family asked for his body to be sent to a funeral home in Decatur, Alabama. Moore’s body was taken to UAB for an autopsy and then to a funeral home in Mobile, Alabama, afterward. The funeral home said all of Moore’s internal organs had been removed.
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