Alabama dad allegedly tortured, killed in prison left eerie final Facebook post weeks before planned release

A young Alabama father of two, who died after allegedly being beaten and sexually assaulted by a gang in prison, wrote an eerie Facebook post just days before the attack apparently unfolded.

"How every body doing [sic] I ain't got to much longer left pray for me I'm coming home better then I was before drug free it's been a crazy ride 3 different prisons now. It's almost over," Daniel Terry Williams, 22, wrote on Oct. 15, about one week before his family says he was brutally beaten by a prison gang on Oct. 19.

Williams was likely referring to his upcoming release from the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama, on Nov. 9 — the same day he died after being taken off life support, as his father and stepmother previously told Fox News Digital.

He was serving a one-year sentence for assault and theft charges as part of a plea agreement, according to Jefferson County court records. He had only been at Staton for about two weeks following a transfer to the Elmore facility when he was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted last month. 

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Taylor Bostic, Williams' stepmother, said the warden at Staton told her over the phone that Williams had overdosed on drugs. When she and her husband, Terry Williams — Daniel's father — went to visit him at a hospital after the alleged overdose, they could not believe what they saw.

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"He was black and blue from head to toe," Bostic said. "He had restraint marks on his wrists. He had indents, almost, in his head from being beaten. So, my husband, Terry, called the warden and said, 'Why the hell…did you tell me my son died of an overdose when it was obviously an assault?' And the warden said it's under investigation, and that's all we've heard from them since."

Terry Williams alleged, citing what he has heard from other inmates at the facility, that Daniel had been "tied up" and beaten on Oct. 19, three days before another inmate apparently took him to an officer for help on Oct. 22. Daniel was brain-dead and transported to a hospital, where his family ultimately decided to take him off life support. 

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He was apparently transported to Kilby Correctional Facility three days after being taken off life support, when he was pronounced dead on Nov. 9, his parents alleged.

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) told Fox News Digital in a statement that "a possible inmate-on-inmate assault was reported at Staton Correctional Facility" on Oct. 22.

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"Inmate Williams was discovered unresponsive in his dorm and was transported to the Health Care Unit," ADOC said. "Medical personnel treated Williams and monitored his condition. The decision was made to transfer him to an area hospital for further evaluation and treatment. He remained at the hospital until the family decided to remove him from life support. He was transported to Kilby Correctional Facility for long-term comfort care where he subsequently died."

Daniel was "found unresponsive in the Health Care Unit" on Nov. 9, and medical staff were "unable to resuscitate him" despite their attempts to keep him alive, according to ADOC.

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The Justice Department sued Alabama over the condition of its prisons in 2020 after a federal investigation revealed that "Alabama violated and is continuing to violate the Constitution because its prisons are riddled with prisoner-on-prisoner and guard-on-prisoner violence."

Bostic described her stepson as a "busybody" who "never stopped."

"That boy moved in his sleep. He was always finding something to do, whether it was tearing something apart or fixing something," she said. "He was raising his daughter, which he loved. He was a really good dad."

Williams' daughter is 1 year old, and he also had a young son. A GoFundMe made in Daniel Terry Williams' full name aims to raise money for his funeral expenses.

Biden campaign complains about NY Times coverage, urges paper to be more critical of Trump

President Biden's campaign called out the New York Times on Wednesday in a press email posted to social media and said the outlet needed to start being more critical of the current GOP front-runner, Donald Trump. 

An email, posted to X by Axios reporter Alex Thompson, from Biden's campaign said the media hasn't "shined a bright enough light" on Republican abortion policies and Trump's role in overturning Roe v. Wade. 

"For the political press corp – especially our friends at the Gray Lady – it’s time to meet the moment and responsibly inform the electorate of what their lives might look like if the leading GOP candidate for president is allowed back in the WH," the email read, referencing the New York Times. 

Biden's campaign singled out a report published on Tuesday by the outlet headlined, "Why Trump Seems Less Vulnerable on Abortion Than Other Republicans." 

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The email said the Times published the article at the "literal same time" Trump started pushing ads about his role in overturning Roe v. Wade.

The campaign specifically took issue with the outlet's assertion that Trump was being vague about his abortion stance to appeal to general election voters.

"He appears to be attending to general election voters by employing vagueness and trying to occupy a middle ground of sorts, perhaps allowing voters to see what they want to see. And traditionally in presidential elections, a relatively small share of people will vote based on any one social issue, even if that issue is abortion," the NYT reported.

The Biden White House wrote a letter to media outlets in September, asking reporters to "ramp up scrutiny" on their coverage of House Republicans amid an impeachment inquiry into Biden.

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"It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies," the letter, obtained by Fox News, read. "When even House Republicans are admitting that there is simply no evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong, much less impeachable, that should set off alarm bells for news organizations." 

The letter was criticized by lawmakers and others, including Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley, who described it as an "uncomfortable feeling of marching orders to the media."

The Biden campaign said those living in states with "draconian bans" on abortion were "living with the consequences of Donald Trump's first term everyday."

The president has also complained about the press coverage of his administration during an interview with MSNBC in May. 

"All they've heard is negative news for three years. Everything is negative," Biden told MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle. "I'm not being critical of the press, but you turn on the television — the only way you're gonna get a hit is if there's something negative, you know. You don't — anyway, that's number one. 

The New York Times did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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