The Daily Yonder Alabama’s Solution to Its Prison Problem Is More Prisons Building "shiny new cages" is not going to resolve a Department of Justice lawsuit against the state's penal system, says an opponent of proposed privately-built prisons. Share this: The photo shows a sign that reads, "HELP," in the window of an inmate cell at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File) In September of 2019, Janice Wisener came across two trucks and an SUV sitting in the driveway of her property outside of the small city of Tallassee in Elmore County, Alabama. “I wondered who they were because they were sitting in my driveway, but when I asked them who they were they couldn’t say,” she said. When she asked them what they needed, they responded only that they weren’t there for her property, but for the property next door.