How Many Prisoners on Medical Leave Has the DOC Lost?

For any who may not know, the Alabama Department of Corrections usually lets dying prisoners go home. That's if a judge approves and the prisoner has a home to which to go. 

Two local prisoners who come to mind are the late Oliver Brazelle and the late Mr. Neler Keeton (note that we used a title of respect for only one of the two). A third who received such a furlough was Hershel Dale Graham, the killer of young husband and father David Andrasik.

The morbidly obese Graham never left the Kilby Receiving medical unit during his relatively short stay in prison. After several months, he was granted permission to come home to die...on the condition that if his health improved, he would be returned to the regular prison system. 

Now, no one knows where Hershel Graham is. He was originally assigned to his father's care; however, when Graham's father died, Hershel began to float from address to address in Alabama and Mississippi. Oh, someone out there may actually know where he is, but the Department of Corrections and the Franklin County Probation Office deny any knowledge of his current whereabouts.

Is anyone actively looking for Graham? He's obviously able to make it on his own and should be returned to prison. Does anyone besides David's family care that this murderer is roaming around out there in the wilds of western Alabama/eastern Mississippi?

Your tax dollars at work...

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A recent letter to the TD advocated 20 year term limits for the U.S. Congress. The writer suggested that it be on the "next ballot." Sorry, but it would take a Constitutional Amendment to bring that to pass. We will give the writer credit for realizing that that such limits shouldn't be two years or six years.  

Yet we do have a method of imposing term limits. It's called defeat at the polls; we strongly suggest that Mo Brooks is most in need of replacing.