Early in 2025 an Alabama Judge ordered that a case charging that UAB (University Of Alabama Birmingham) and The Alabama Department of Corrections worked together to wrongfully take the organs of deceased prison inmates has been given the green light to move forward. The judge cited there is "more than mere circumstantial evidence of conspiracy in the complaints".
These allegations are absolutely despicable and UAB / Alabama will LOSE this case. Their defense team has mounted a flacid / impotent response, insulting the intelligence of all involved by accusing the family attorneys of getting their law advice from artificial intelligence hallucinations!
Families of five men who died in Alabama prisons are suing the prison system and UAB (University Of Alabama Birmingham). The inmates had their autopsies conducted by UAB. The lawsuits allege, the inmates’ bodies were sent to funeral homes, where funeral directors discovered they were missing their organs. The lawsuits each allege that the university took, and kept, inmates’ organs without consent of next-of-kin.
According to the lawsuit from the Kennedy family, a representative from UAB told them: “UAB Defendants’ Department of Pathology takes organs ‘all the time.’” The family also said they were told by someone in the pathology department that “UAB is a teaching institution. And every teaching institution that does autopsies keeps their organs.”
While the new lawsuits don’t say what happened to the organs, it mentions an incident several years ago at the medical school. In 2018, a group of UAB medical students were concerned about the body parts and tissues they were using as part of their training that had come from people who died in prison, according to the lawsuit, and took their concerns to an ethics oversight committee.
Several of those UAB students later appeared before the committee and were told that the removal of organs was part of the process for autopsies performed on prisoners. That panel also emphasized that the organs would benefit future doctors’ training and if they weren’t used, would just be thrown away.
“Thus, it was a position of the ethics committee that the autopsy process and the teaching uses of specimens obtained through the autopsy on incarcerated individuals in the current fashion would be ethically permissible,” said the lawsuits.
Update: In May, '24 UAB Hospital’s pathology department announced it will no longer be conducting the autopsies of dead state inmates after UAB severed its contract with the Alabama Department of Corrections.
“While the UAB Department of Pathology has been in compliance with laws governing autopsies to determine the cause of death of incarcerated individuals under the appropriate clinical standard – and a panel of medical ethicists reviewed and endorsed our protocols regarding autopsies
00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus hours video on everything that happened to me.
00:09All right, big update in this case. According to the Associated Press and Birmingham, Alabama TV station, WVTM Channel 13, in news dated April 14, 2025, a lawsuit that accuses Alabama prisons of illegally harvesting organs of people who died while incarcerated will be allowed to proceed.
00:34State Judge J.R. Gaines has ruled the consolidated lawsuits filed by eight families allege the Alabama Department of Corrections illegally allowed the University of Alabama at Birmingham, UAB, to take and study the organs of their deceased incarcerated relatives without the consent of the next of kin.
00:58The families say that the poll entities intentionally hid their misconduct.
01:03The judge denied the defendant's motion to dismiss the case based on immunity, which protects state officials from lawsuits if they are acting within their official capacities.
01:13Lawyers for the defense argued that the Alabama Department of Corrections and UAB had a contract authorizing the autopsies.
01:22Because the contract was between two state entities, the defense argued it was protected by state immunity.
01:29The judge wrote that immunity doesn't apply if their actions violate the law or when they act willfully, maliciously, fraudulently, in bad faith, beyond their authority, under a mistaken interpretation of the law.
01:43Gaines also said the statute of limitations does not apply to inmates who died more than two years ago if the defendants attempted to fraudulently conceal the alleged crimes.
01:56The news report adds, between 2006 and 2015, UAB's division of autopsy got 23% of its yearly income from the Alabama Department of Corrections autopsies and 29% from the state's Department of Forensic Sciences, according to a study presented to the Ethics Oversight Committee in 2018 by former medical students.
02:23The legal team that Alabama and UAB have representing them is absolutely pathetic.
02:30UAB attorney Jay Ezzel, yeah, get a load of this one, Ezzel also said he thought some of the case law included came from fake, hallucinated cases and was written by ChatGPT or some form of artificial intelligence.
02:47Truly an impotent defense.
02:49The report reads, Judge Gaines also said that the families had shown evidence that the state's Uniform Anatomical Gift Act had been violated and that they offered more than mere circumstantial evidence of conspiracy in their complaints.
03:06I've seen a lot of absolutely deplorable things dealing with hospitals and doctors in my own case.
03:14This takes things to a new low.
03:16Alabamians have to take a stand against this stuff.
03:19I think there need to be public inquiries and transparency.
03:24All the business that UAB conducts involving human organs.
03:28People in Alabama need to know where every organ comes from, where it's going, that UAB is allowed to have custody over.
03:38Doctors and medical staff as well.
03:41You come in contact with human organs in University of Alabama at Birmingham.
03:46You need to demand the chain of custody and the origin.
03:50Likewise, any person going to UAB or in the future possibly Ascension St. Vincent's Hospitals, you need to be on guard for your own personal safety.
04:01Because it's obvious that as long as the university needs human organs, they're going to have to get them from somewhere.
04:08Especially at risk are the vulnerable, small children, the elderly, individuals with rare illnesses, all possible subjects for research experimentation.
04:21People in Alabama, they should not stand for this kind of stuff to be happening in their community.
04:26But unfortunately, the community is not what it used to be.
04:31It looks like one possibility in the cell of Ascension St. Vincent's to the University of Alabama at Birmingham is that the corrupt elements and doctors,
04:43the unbridled greed and evil that exists in the area, have scared away and pushed the Christian elements out.
04:53I was interested in contacting UAB President Dr. Ray Watts regarding the university's recent takeover of Ascension St. Vincent's Hospitals Infrastructure and Services.
05:17I was a patient and customer of many of these doctors over the past several years and suffered major medical fraud, misdiagnosis, malpractice, patient dumping, and a lack of treatment.
05:31And there are many others in the state of Alabama who have similar unresolved outstanding issues.
05:37Dr. Watts may be interested in my case.
05:40As a neurology specialist, I had broken the underside of my skull in the area of the occipital condyle and condular canal.
05:50Possibly my foreman magnum was also fractured or broken.
05:53Very serious injury.
05:55I almost died from.
05:56Yeah, I went to St. Vincent's, had MRI, CT, and x-rays taken.
06:03I was told that I had no injury.
06:05I knew better because I almost died from whatever happened to me.
06:08I got my records and I was given written and signed radiology reports from Ascension St. Vincent's that I had no injury there.
06:20But the injuries show up in the pictures.
06:23So Dr. Watts, he could look at what happened to me.
06:26You can see 60 hours video documentation on my story at YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare.
06:34Ascension did business the wrong way during his tenure as the manager of these facilities.
06:40And UAB inherits these risks, debts, liabilities.
06:45At the same time, they try to present a new image for their acquisitions.
06:50As a patient and customer, I believe UAB must immediately assess and expunge corruption from its hospitals and staff.
06:59And, in fact, its future business success depends on this.
07:03If you would, would you send an email to that?
07:06Take your time.
07:07It's at president at UAB.edu.
07:10And there you can spell it.
07:12Every concern you have and what you think he needs to know.
07:16And then we can make sure it gets to him and other proper authorities.
07:20Okay, thank you very much.
07:21Because this is a very serious matter.
07:24Okay, thank you.
07:25Between 2018 and 2019, I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama.
07:35I believe I had broken my neck.
07:37I had an x-ray, two CT scans, and later an MRI looked at by Ascension St. Vincent's doctors.
07:45Each time they had told me I had no injuries in this area, I knew their diagnosis was an error as my condition worsened.
07:53The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer of 2019.
07:59I almost died.
08:00I obtained my medical records from your hospital along with the x-ray, CT, MRI imagery and discovered the truth of my injury.
08:07I had broken bone in the underside of my skull in the area of the condylar canal and occipital condyle.
08:13How the doctors could have missed such a large and serious injury over multiple hospital visits is inexcusable.
08:19I believe some element of organized corruption may exist in this hospital.
08:25I believe I may have been a victim of patient dumping in the course of my seeking treatment, which is a violation of EMTALA, E-M-T-A-L-A.
08:34When I told medical staff associated with Ascension about my discovery, that I had been misdiagnosed repeatedly, I was personally attacked and my psychological state was challenged.
08:47This is reflected in medical records I obtained later.
08:50I could not obtain proper treatment or diagnosis for this injury because doctors and nurses that I would subsequently have encounters with would only entertain what the erroneous Ascension ER findings were.
09:06My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years, had the misfortune of working in an Ascension hospital when I questioned my MRR findings involving St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network, LLC, and Dr. Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, radiologist, in March 2019.
09:25My mother, who was a nurse for 20 years and worked in the Ascension hospital, she was terminated from her job there around the same time.
Be the first to comment