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Alabama's Solution to Its Prison Problem Is More Prisons


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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.
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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.  ....

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Alabama asset forfeiture bill went from broad reforms to 'best we can do'


Alabama asset forfeiture bill went from broad reforms to ‘best we can do’
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As he has for each of the past three years, Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur introduced a bill at the start of this legislative session aimed at reining in civil asset forfeiture.
Unlike his previous attempts, the legislation appears posed to finally be approved this year, but only after extensive negotiations with law enforcement and other lawmakers that stripped major reforms out of the bill, allowing police to continue seizing cash and property from many people who have not been convicted of crimes.
“The bill is certainly not all we wanted, but it’s the best we could get through in the current environment,” Orr, a longtime critic of asset forfeiture, said via phone Tuesday evening. “I wish I could say this was game, set, match, but I can’t say that. But it’s the best we can do given the circumstances.” ....

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Gov. Kay Ivey disappointed as underwriters pull out of Alabama prison deal


Gov. Kay Ivey disappointed as underwriters pull out of Alabama prison deal
Updated 2:28 PM;
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Inmates sit in a treatment dorm at Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Ala., Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. The Department of Justice sued Alabama in December 2020 over excessive violence and other problems in state prisons for male inmates. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) APAP
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Gov. Kay Ivey said this morning she was disappointed that the investment bank Barclays has withdrawn from underwriting the financing of two privately owned prisons that Alabama would lease and operate.
The governor said Barclays’ decision would not stop the plan to lease new prisons, which the Ivey administration and the Alabama Department of Corrections have been working on for more than two years. ....

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