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🌱 Inmate Mental Health Care + Fatal Shooting + Severe Weather
The quickest way to get caught up on the most important things happening today in Montgomery.
Good morning, neighbors! It's me again, Sammi Caramela, your host of the Montgomery Daily.
First, today's weather:
A brief shower or two. High: 72 Low: 68.
Here are the top stories in Montgomery today:
- U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ordered Alabama to make multiple changes in inmate care and extended a deadline to 2025 for the state to boost the number of correctional officers. He issued a 600-page opinion that exposed the prison system's lack of progress in meeting an earlier directive to boost staffing and also on the number of suicides that have occurred behind bars. The order, which took place on Monday, comes after Thompson in 2017 ruled that Alabama's "horrendously inadequate" care of mentally ill inmates violated the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. (Montgomery Advertiser)
- A shooting, which took place in Montgomery on Monday evening, is under investigation. Captain Saba Coleman said Montgomery police officers responded to a gunshot victim at a local hospital shortly before 8 p.m., where a man had sustained a life-threatening gunshot wound. The shooting happened in the 100 block of South Hopper Street. (WSFA12)
- An approaching weather system is forecast to bring severe weather throughout Alabama from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday morning. Straight-line winds of up to 60 miles per hour and isolated tornadoes are possible. The area south and east from about Alexander City to Montgomery is under a "marginal" risk.
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Today in Montgomery:
- Youth Mental Health First Aid Certification On Zoom By Council On Substance Abuse-NCADD (10:00 AM)
From my notebook:
- Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the past two years have been successful for Montgomery thanks to the leadership of Mayor Steven L. Reed. Montgomery is primed for exponential growth and new opportunities in 2022 and beyond. (Facebook)
- The River Region will have fun activities and fireworks to ring in 2022. Here's a look at what's happening for New Year's Eve. (Facebook)
- New cases of COVID-19 are surging in Alabama, and omicron variant cases are also increasing. (Facebook)
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— Sammi Caramela
About me: Assistant Managing Editor at Lightning Media Partners and author of "Some Place Like Home."