CNN: “A grieving father says he wants to know what led to the death of his 22-year-old son on the day he was supposed to be released from an Alabama correctional facility.
Daniel Terry Williams died November 9 after his family took him off life support following what the Alabama Department of Corrections called a “possible inmate-on-inmate assault”
Williams had been serving a 1-year sentence for property theft out of Jefferson County, the department told CNN in a statement….
Williams said when he called the warden to figure out what had happened, Headley allegedly told him Daniel had “apparently overdosed.”
When Williams saw his son at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, he told CNN he “cussed out” the warden, believing the warden had lied to him.
“Anybody could look at Daniel and tell he’s not laying on his deathbed because of (an) overdose,” Williams said.
“The warden told Terry that Daniel was in the hospital for a drug overdose,” Andrew Menefee, an attorney representing Terry Williams, told CNN. “The warden did not mention anything regarding a physical or sexual assault on Daniel.”
“He had bruises all up and down his body, cuts, he had indentations in his head. It looked like they took a mop handle or something and beat him across the head with it. He was in bad shape,” Williams said.”