An Alabama inmate who allegedly died after being tortured and sexually assaulted two weeks before his release posted a haunting final message on Facebook – asking people to “pray for me” as he can’t wait to “go home.”
Daniel Williams, 22, a father of two, was nearing the end of a year in prison for theft when he was found unresponsive Oct. 22 at the Staton Correctional Facility. He died two weeks later at the hospital, officials said.
A week earlier, he took to Facebook to express his relief that his time in prison was drawing to a close.
“How is every body I don’t need to do it [sic] the longer you pray for me the better I come home [sic] I was previously drug free, it’s been a crazy ride 3 different prisons now. It’s almost over,” he wrote.
It is unclear how he managed to get online while incarcerated.
Williams’ death has been reported as a “possible inmate-on-inmate attack,” according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Daniel Williams, the 22-year-old Alabama inmate who allegedly died after being raped and tortured behind bars, posted a haunting final message on Facebook.Justice for Daniel/Facebook
His family claim they were not informed until October 25 that he was brain dead in hospital – and warden Joseph Headley blamed it on a drug overdose.
But Williams’ stepmother, Taylor Bostic, and father, Terry, later learned she had been kidnapped and raped or “tied up, beaten and rented for two to three days” by other inmates, according to the Alabama Political Reporter, which cited prison sources who alleged such violence. is common there.
Williams was taken off life support on November 5 and died four days later.
Daniel Williams with his fiancee, Amber WilliamsFacebook / Daniel Williams
Corrections officials confirmed that he was the victim of a “possible inmate-on-inmate assault” that left him “unresponsive.”
“The decision was made to transfer him to an area hospital for further evaluation and treatment. He remained in the hospital until the family decided to remove him from life support,” DOC representative Kelly Windham Betts said in a statement.
His fiancee, Amber Williams, told WVTM: “I went to the hospital and the nurse told me that he had been attacked and beaten very badly.
Fans keep the air moving in G Dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Spiegner, Alabama.LLOYD GALLMAN, Montgomery Advertiser via Imagn Content Services, LLC
“And when I walked into the room, he had bruises all over his arm, like down to his fingers, he had bruises here. He had cuts up and down and bruises on his legs. And it was bad,” he told the outlet.
Amber added about their child together: “How do I tell her about her dad? Like, why isn’t he here? Why didn’t he come home?”
Terry told WVTM that her son had very little brain function, so he was taken off life support.
“I called the warden, and I cursed him. I said, ‘Dude, you know this isn’t a case of exaggeration? You know what happened. How is this crap going to happen like this?’ Well, it’s under investigation now. And that was the last time I spoke to the warden,” he told the outlet.
An official with the nonprofit Alabama law and justice group said what happened to Williams was all too common.
“Cruelty, violence, dysfunction, it’s not deviance anymore. It is a feature of the Alabama Department of Corrections. It’s our system,” Carla Crowder of Alabama Appleseed told WVTM.
“So the kind of horrific death that we’re seeing, what happened to Mr. Williams is not the norm anymore,” he added.
Meanwhile, the grieving family says the Department of Corrections will perform an autopsy — but they would like to have an independent one, which they can’t afford.
“I set up a GoFundMe account to get him burned, it’s like a thousand dollars. I wanted him buried by my mom, but it was, like, seven grand, you know? I know I can’t,” said Terry.
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