"The termination of the UAB/ADOC contract does not change anything concerning the lawsuits that have been filed. The damage to those families has already been done," said an attorney representing several of the dead inmates' families.| al
The family claims that the 74-year-old man’s brain was missing, along with his other internal organs, after the body was returned from an autopsy at UAB.| al
Five families say their loved ones each had their autopsies conducted by UAB before separate funeral directors discovered they were missing their organs. The lawsuits each say UAB took, and kept, inmates’ organs without consent.| al
The bill comes after families claimed their loved ones, who died in Alabama prisons, had their organs taken out and never returned.| al