Legislature
The five-bill prison infrastructure and justice reform package will be in committee in the House on Tuesday.
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Alabama Department of Corrections stories
News
Billy Smith died in 2017 after being beaten at Elmore Correctional Facility. The state charged both a prisoner and a guard for the death.
News
The proposal calls for building two new prisons for men, one women's prison, renovations to several others and the closure of four prisons.
Prisons
Asymptomatic testing at Elmore Correctional Facility found 191 cases among incarcerated men.
Legislature
The purpose of the tax credit was to incentivize insurance companies to house facilities in Alabama.
Prisons
Alabama and the Alabama Department of Corrections are being sued by the DOJ over violence inside the state's prisons for men.
News
Willie Burks watched the handcuffed person be beaten, then afterward said "that’s fair,"according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Prisons
Two deaths this week inside Alabama prisons bring the month’s total to at least 10.
Prisons
Alabama Appleseed says the incarcerated and recently released were failed by state prisons during the pandemic.
Featured Opinion
"The Department of Corrections wants federal dollars to build more prisons. The Treasury Department should laugh."