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FILE - In this June 18, 2015, photo, a fence stands at Elmore Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala. Faced with a federal court order to approve conditions inside prisons, Alabama is attempting to boost the number of correctional officers. Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn said the department will need to add somewhere between 1,800 and 2,000 officers, according to staffing studies. A federal judge who ruled that mental health care to state inmates is “horrendously inadequate” said that low staffing is the overarching issue behind the prison system’s troubles. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
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