Ivey signs leases for 2 new prisons; costs not released Updated Feb 01, 2021; Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed 30-year lease agreements today on two new men’s prisons to be built and owned by private developers in Escambia and Elmore counties. The agreements come after more than two years of planning by the Ivey administration and the Alabama Department of Corrections to build a total of three men’s new prisons. Negotiations continue on the third prison, which will be in Bibb County. The first two prisons, to be built on Bell Fork Road near Atmore and on Rifle Range Road in Tallassee, will be financed, built, owned and maintained by a developer team led by CoreCivic, a national private prison firm. The state will staff and operate the prisons.