Alabama prisons stonewalled a data request. Here's what that data showed.
Alabama prisons stonewalled a data request. Here’s what that data showed. Updated Dec 14, 2020; Posted Dec 14, 2020 Other states make their data available for free or next to it, but when a Columbia researcher asked the Alabama Department of Corrections for inmate data, he was told it would cost him more than $3,000. Now we can see why. LC- The Oregonian Facebook Share This is a story about how government gets people killed and then tries to hide it. It is also a story about spreadsheets. A year ago, I first heard of David Simpson, an Alabama native now studying at Columbia University to ...