Wilson v. Dunn

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA MIDDLE DIVISION JAMAL WILSON, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) CIVIL ACTION NO. ) 4:21-cv-00352-KOB JEFFERSON DUNN, et al., ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION Nelson Mandela said, “no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.”1 Plaintiff Jamal Wilson has spent nearly five years in Alabama’s St. Clair Correctional Facility. The injuries he suffered and the conditions he alleges at St. Clair paint a troubling picture of that facility and—if Mr. Mandela is to be believed—of this nation, or at least the State of…