Congresswoman Sewell goes public with support for Siegelman

Congresswoman Sewell goes public with support for Siegelman

Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell recently released a public statement in response to Siegelman’s Solitary Confinement again. She stated “After almost ten years, the unjust conviction of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman continues to be a miscarriage of justice and a blemish on the integrity of our nation’s justice system. Enough is enough.” Sewell Comments on Siegelman’s Release from Solitary! Don was placed in solitary last week. He was put in solitary, coincidentally, around 4 hours after the Washington Post published an article by Robert Barnes. The offending article included an interview with Don. The interview did not surprise the prison, because the interview was prison approved! Then Post ran a […]

What the SHU? The Gov is in Solitary again!

What the SHU? The Gov is in Solitary again!

SENT TO THE SHU AGAIN Former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman was sent to the SHU again this week. Former Alabama governor Don E. Siegelman was sent to the Special Housing Unit, called solitary confinement or SHU, this week at the Louisiana facility in which he is imprisoned on political corruption charges, according to his son Joseph Siegelman. Siegelman, 70, was quoted extensively in a Washington Post article this week on former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell, whose 2014 conviction on public corruption charges was reviewed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. This case is similar to Governor Siegelman’s case in that the definition of political bribery is so loosely […]