Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations

In less than a year and a half, Frankie Johnson, a man incarcerated at the William E Donaldson prison outside Birmingham, Alabama, says he was stabbed around 20 times.

In December of 2019, Johnson says, he was stabbed “at least nine times” in his housing unit. In March of 2020, an officer handcuffed him to a desk following a group therapy meeting, and left the unit, after which another prisoner came in and stabbed him five times.

In November of the same year, Johnson says, he was…