Three fired Alabama jail workers have been accused of having female inmates strip naked and dance for food, an exchange prisoners dubbed “dancing for doughnuts.” According to the local sheriff, their actions were caught on a jail security camera.
The prisoners had to strip and dance in front of them, in some cases partially or totally nude.
Sheriff David Abston confirms three jailers were fired after an investigation.
“Female inmates were doing nude dancing for the jailers on video,” Abston said.
The three jailers—Demetrius Harris, Anthony Lavender and Chance Draper—went to court on Thursday, and have been indicted on charges of theft and ethics violations.
In addition to doughnuts, according to WBRC, they allegedly also bribed inmates with cell phones and other items.
This isn’t the first disturbing tale to come from an Alabama jail; Reason has a rundown of numerous other instances of abuse and inadequate care in state facilities.
In one of the most infamous cases, a 2014 Justice Department investigation into the Julia Tutwiler Prison found female inmates “exposed…to harm and serious risk of harm from staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse and sexual harassment.” Staff subjected the women to strip shows and “cross-gender viewings.”
