Health Department of Public Health to hold vaccination clinics in some counties It was unclear Tuesday how much vaccine the state would be sending to these South Alabama counties. Eddie BurkhalterJanuary 27, 2021
Prisons 57 Alabama inmates have died after testing positive for COVID-19 Approximately 58 percent of incarcerated people in Alabama's prisons have been tested for COVID-19. Eddie BurkhalterJanuary 26, 2021
News Board of Pardons and Paroles grants paroles The board held 41 parole hearings Tuesday, granting five paroles and denying 36. Brandon MoseleyJanuary 6, 2021
News Parole board schedules nearly 180 hearings next week The hearings will remain closed to public attendance because of COVID-19. Brandon MoseleyJanuary 1, 2021
Health Death of 94-year-old man in Alabama prison highlights struggle to control COVID-19 AODC has struggled to control the virus, which has infected at least 1,033 incarcerated people and at least 729 workers. Eddie BurkhalterDecember 10, 2020
News DOJ sues Alabama over violence, “unconstitutional” conditions in state prisons The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against the state of Alabama and the Alabama Department of Corrections Eddie BurkhalterDecember 9, 2020
News Report: Black men in Alabama prisons three times more likely to die by homicide Incarcerated Black people in the state are being murdered at just more than three times the rate of white people. Eddie BurkhalterNovember 13, 2020
National Inmate assault injures two St. Clair prison correctional officers The assaults happened at approximately 7:30 p.m. and both officers were taken to a local hospital and treated for those non-life-threatening injuries. Eddie BurkhalterOctober 30, 2020
News Alabama inmate dies after inmate-on-inmate assault Edwin Wells, 29, died on Oct. 10 from injuries during an apparent inmate-on-inmate assault at the Easterling Correctional Facility, the Alabama Department of Corrections... Eddie BurkhalterOctober 20, 2020
National AUM poll suggests Alabamians divided on prison reform proposals 90 percent of Alabamians favor some type of reform to the state's prison systems, but there is little agreement on what efforts should be... Brandon MoseleyOctober 20, 2020