‘Wild, wild west.’ Families say organs of deceased Alabama inmates have been removed without their consent

by External Media Posts · 04/18/2024

After inmate Jim Kennedy Jr. died last year at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama, his sister-in-law got an unusual call from the funeral home preparing the body for burial. “Did y’all realize he came back without his organs?” Sara Kennedy recalled being told. “Liver, heart. All of your major organs. They were gone.”

Isabel Rosales, Chris Youd and Ray Sanchez April 18, 2024

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