{"id":18921,"date":"2025-05-24T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/alabama-paid-a-law-firm-millions-to-defend-its-prisons-it-used-ai-and-turned-in-fake-citations\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:37:15","slug":"alabama-paid-a-law-firm-millions-to-defend-its-prisons-it-used-ai-and-turned-in-fake-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/alabama-paid-a-law-firm-millions-to-defend-its-prisons-it-used-ai-and-turned-in-fake-citations\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In December of 2019, Johnson says, he was stabbed \u201cat least nine times\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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\nButler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times
\nIn 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.
\nIn December of 2019, Johnson says, he was stabbed \u201cat least nine times\u201d 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. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Butler Snow faces sanctions after lawyer cites false case law defending against inmate who says he was stabbed 20 times 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 …<\/p>\n

Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}