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Former prison inmate David Mears adjusts to life of freedom amid pandemic Updated Mar 11, 2021; Facebook Share After David Mears emerged from behind the chain-link fence that surrounds the Limestone Correctional prison in February, he returned home to a changing city. Traffic is heavier, and thousands of people are moving into Madison, a suburb just west of Huntsville. New businesses are opening in Huntsville and construction crews are widening Interstate 565. Madison Square Mall is gone, replaced by a new mixed-use development featuring Top Golf, a Trader Joe’s grocery store that’s unde...

52 COVID-19 positive Alabama inmates dead this year after state reports 2 more deaths Updated Dec 23, 2020; More than 50 state inmates who died this year have tested positive for COVID-19 after the Alabama Department of Corrections reported two more deaths Wednesday. Danny Kennedy, 69, who was serving a 40-year sentence on production of child pornography charges that occurred in Mobile County at Hamilton Aged and Infirmed, was transferred to a local hospital Nov. 28 for treatment of multiple preexisting medical conditions unrelated to COVID-19, the agency said. He tested positive for COVID-...

People Incarcerated in Alabama Are Pushing for a New Year’s Prison Strike Reprising its 2016 and 2018 prison strikes, Free Alabama Movement called for a statewide work strike on prison labor. Jared Rodriguez / Truthout The Free Alabama Movement (FAM), a group of incarcerated people and supporters who were involved in organizing the famed prison strikes of 2016 and 2018, plans to start off the new year right. For these activists, that means a statewide “30-day blackout” prison strike and boycott that will begin on or around the New Year, incarcerated FAM member Swift Justice tol...