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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.

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https://www.moultonadvertiser.com/news/article_a77d0b88-9549-11ee-a04b-3b8f2ec3576f.html

Found a better article. It was a burglary charge. Sounds like he was killed by another inmate.

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It wasn’t immediately clear because the journalist is lazy. The scary shit is that dude’s heart was removed

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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.

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Or the warden got a nice chunk of change for that man’s heart.

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I’d wager that they’re selling organs to medical schools and expecting zero repercussions.

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Or the cause of death was somehow incriminating and involved the heart, so they got rid of it to destroy evidence.

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12 points

some sick fuck just cutting up bodies and taking parts as souvenirs selling them for big money.

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66 points

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?

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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?

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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That’s funny I consider another person who feels entitled to my organs to be insufferably selfish.

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24 points

Anything they want.

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10 points

The law isn’t the bunch of nice guys they convince you of with their controlled conditions.

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1 point

A bunch of good ol boys trying their darndest to re-live the “good old days” of slavery.

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11 points

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.

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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.

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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.”

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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…

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It’s Alabama. It’s never going to get better.

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This kind of story makes me think about superheroes.

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