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MONTGOMERY, Ala. Alabama officials say federal rules do not appear to block the state's plan to use $400 million in pandemic relief funds to build prisons, although the U.S. Treasury Department document states that new prisons are generally not an eligible use of the money.
Alabama officials say federal rules do not appear to block Alabama's plan to use pandemic relief funds to build prisons. The Treasury Department in final rules wrote that construction of new correctional facilities is not an allowed use if built as a response to an increase in rate of crime.