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The fight over the operation and purpose of Alabama's prisons often centers around the question: How many people incarcerated in the state's prisons committed violent crimes?
MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday defended her state’s plan to use pandemic relief funds to build new prisons —saying the $400 million expenditure is both allowed and needed — while a legislative committee swiftly advanced the construction plan. Ivey issued a response to U.S. House Judiciary Committee
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a Justice Department lawsuit over Alabama's notoriously violent prisons, state lawmakers on Monday began a special session on a $1.3 billion construction plan that would
Bill would give some Alabama inmates under habitual offender law chance for new sentence AL.com 1 hr ago © Trisha Crain The Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala. Russell Housman, serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole in the Alabama prison system, asks for people to be open-minded about what he and others say are inequities in the state’s Habitual Felony Offender Act (HFOA). Housman’s step-father, Danny Dodson, is trying to convince legislators to fix what Dodson also sees as an inequitable law. Dodson has made some progress. A bill in the Legislature would allow so...
DEPC and NASC present "Justice Counts: Using Data to Inform Policy and Bolster Public Safety" I am pleased to report that next week, the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center (DEPC) is kicking off its 2021 Sentencing Workshop Series in collaboration with National Association of Sentencing Commissions (NASC) with a terrific event titled "Justice Counts: Using Data to Inform Policy and Bolster Public Safety." This is how this event is described on this page (where you can register): Please join the National Association of Sentencing Commissions and the Drug Enforcement and Policy Center for a se...