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Alabama can’t build its way out of the prison crisis | BRIAN LYMAN
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn May 1981, there were about 6,000 inmates in Alabama custody. 1,400 of them were in city and...
Alabama just added its 166th person to Death Row. The appeals process could take decades
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“He’ll be here long after I’m gone.” In fact, one inmate has waited on death row since January 1982,...
Gov. Shapiro, once Pa.'s top cop, backs inmate's appeal of life sentence for felony murder
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 4 hours agoGov. Josh Shapiro took the unusual step last week of filing a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of...
Alabama governor sets execution date: Keith Edmund Gavin to die by lethal injection
Birmingham News· 7 days agoAnother Alabama Death Row inmate is set to die this summer. Gov. Kay Ivey set July 18 as the...Keith...
House passes bill to create felony for keeping organs without consent
Birmingham News· 7 days agoThe Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill to make it a felony for a medical examiner to...
Case of Alabama prisoner’s missing heart is dismissed. Heart was never found.
Birmingham News· 7 days agoThe case of the man with the missing heart is closed, but the heart was never located. The family of Brandon Clay Dotson filed a federal lawsuit earlier ...
Op-ed: Alabama can’t solve its prisons safety crisis with a staff shortage of 61%
Birmingham News· 7 days agoLast month the longest serving leader of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, John Wetzel,...
Florida bill is poised to make education in prisons more accessible
WUSF 89.7· 2 days agoWhen Fordham was released on parole in 2022 — 31 years, two months and eight days later — he left...
MDOC promotes inmate boxing program, but lawmakers say money could be better spent
The Star-Herald· 7 days agoSports teams have come to Missisisppi’s prison system, giving incarcerated people a creative way to stay active, change attitudes, build sportsmanship and help in their rehabilitation,