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SB254, a bill to bring fairness to parole revocations, filed in the Alabama Senate
Home Page Updates, NewsAn Appleseed-supported bill that would bring more fairness to the parole revocation process and help prevent unnecessary revocations that do not contribute to public safety has been filed in the Alabama Legislature.
SB254, sponsored by Sen.…

Another deadly year in Alabama prisons claims 202 lives
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
More than six years after the State of Alabama was put on notice that its violent and dangerous prisons violate the United States Constitution, the death toll inside state prisons was nearly three…

Alabama mother fights for better quality of life for son who returned from prison with severe brain injury
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
William Thomas was found hanging inside his segregation cell at St. Clair Correctional Facility on Aug. 7, 2023. Although he lived, he’s still fighting to get his life back from the severe brain…

Amid overdose crisis in Alabama prisons, drug exposure sidelines two corrections officers
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
Two officers at St. Clair Correctional Facility were treated for exposure to an unidentified substance on November 29, requiring both to be given the life-saving NARCAN treatment and one of those…

James "Honkytonk" Jones rises from St. Clair prison to the stage at Appleseed's Celebrate Justice event
Home Page Updates, NewsJames Jones, who was once condemned to die in an Alabama prison, took the stage at the Woodlawn Theatre and sang a love song in front of a crowd of mostly strangers last Thursday night.
It was Appleseed’s annual Celebrate Justice event,…
Latest News
- SB 316, Alabama’s Prison Oversight Bill, Has Been Filed. Now Let’s Get It Passed. March 1, 2026
- Appleseed’s Callie Greer receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Crime Survivors Speak February 25, 2026
- Remembering three Appleseed clients who died waiting for a chance at freedom February 23, 2026
- Families from Florence, Dothan, Tuscaloosa, Prattville and Countless Places In Between Line the Alabama Capitol Steps Honoring the Hundreds of Lives Lost in Alabama State Prisons February 18, 2026
- Chronicle of Philanthropy calls Appleseed “one of the South’s most unexpectedly effective advocacy groups.” February 8, 2026
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SB 316, Alabama’s Prison Oversight Bill, Has Been Filed. Now Let’s Get It Passed.
Alabama prisons, Home Page Updates, NewsMore oversight, transparency, and accountability could be coming to the Alabama Department of Corrections under SB 316, filed last week by Sen. Larry Stutts, R-Tuscumbia. This bill is the result of years of investigations, litigation, and escalating prison expenditures that have failed to alleviate extreme violence, dysfunction, and the highest prison death rates in the […]
Appleseed’s Callie Greer receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Crime Survivors Speak
Home Page Updates, NewsTeam Appleseed and the incredible Callie Greer were honored this week in Montgomery by Crime Survivors Speak, a network of crime survivors who create healing communities, develop leaders, and drive policies that make everyone safer. The group held a 200-person strong rally and march in Montgomery on Wednesday. Fore more than a decade, Callie has […]
Families from Florence, Dothan, Tuscaloosa, Prattville and Countless Places In Between Line the Alabama Capitol Steps Honoring the Hundreds of Lives Lost in Alabama State Prisons
Alabama prisons, Home Page UpdatesBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Stephanie Lewis stood in front of the Alabama State Capitol steps with hundreds of others on Wednesday and pleaded for the system that allowed her husband to die to change. “It has to change. I know his life was not in vain,” Mrs. Lewis said of her husband’s January death […]