AL Political Reporter: “Barbara Maxwell found out her son died in an Alabama prison from another incarcerated man who called her, and from a Facebook post by another who said he’d overdosed on fentanyl and heroin.
Maxwell now wants to spread awareness of the rampant drug problem in Alabama’s overpopulated, understaffed and deadly prisons. She spoke to APR in hope her message reaches someone who can help.
“My son is gone, and I just want to be a voice so that somebody else’s mother doesn’t have to go through what I’m going through,” Maxwell told APR recently.
Justin Maxwell, 31, was found unresponsive by prison staff at Easterling Correctional Facility on Feb. 10 and was pronounced dead, Alabama Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kristi Simpson wrote to APR in a response seeking confirmation of his death.”