


Appleseed's latest report shows that 'Safer prisons are within reach.'
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
Alabama’s prison system is in crisis. Federal courts have said so. Back-to-back years of record prison deaths show it. The people who live and work inside those facilities feel it every day.
Violence,…

Appleseed Welcomes Intern MaKenzie Smith
NewsBy MaKenzie Smith
My name is Makenzie Smith, and I am excited to be spending this summer as a policy intern with Alabama Appleseed and Alabama Arise. I’m from Moundville, Alabama, and have grown up in the Tuscaloosa County area. I recently…

Welcome Appleseed Intern, Wyatt Williams
NewsBy Wyatt Williams, Appleseed Intern
My name is Wyatt Williams, and I am excited about joining the Appleseed team this upcoming summer! Born and raised in Birmingham, I graduated from Vestavia Hills High School, and I now attend the University…

Appleseed Welcomes Summer Intern James Stephens
NewsMy name is James Stephens, and I’m excited to intern at Alabama Appleseed this summer! I was born and raised here in Birmingham and will start my sophomore year at New York University this fall. Right now, my plan is to major in history and…

"Underneath the quilt you're safe."
Home Page Updates, NewsWith help from friends, Appleseed's Callie Greer is capturing the pain of families who have lost loved ones to violence and creating something beautiful. Join her quilting event on July 19 in Birmingham. Details below.
By Callie Greer
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Latest News
- Celebrate Justice: Live at Woodlawn Theatre, Thursday, November 6, 2025 September 30, 2025
- Appleseed’s Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor September 28, 2025
- Welcome Appleseed intern and UAB Senior Anahita Maleknia September 18, 2025
- Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma September 16, 2025
- August at St. Clair prison: a supervisor arrested on drug trafficking charges, reports of guns, two suspected drug overdose deaths, and now a young man with asthma has died and his family has no answers. August 28, 2025
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Appleseed’s Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Carla Crowder, Appleseed Executive Director FLORENCE Ala., — When I lived in Florence in the 1980s and 1990s, I was pretty average, at best. There was one thing I did well. I shot free throws, and for three years in a row I represented the City of Florence in the national finals of the […]
Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma
Home Page Updates, NewsMy name is Nicholas Thoma and I’m thrilled to be working with Alabama Appleseed this fall as a legal extern. I’m originally from Pennsylvania but have called Alabama home for the last five years since I came to the University of Alabama for my undergraduate studies. I am currently a 2L at the University of […]
August at St. Clair prison: a supervisor arrested on drug trafficking charges, reports of guns, two suspected drug overdose deaths, and now a young man with asthma has died and his family has no answers.
Home Page Updates, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher The family of a 25-year-old man with just over a year left to serve on nonviolent property crimes believes he may have died from a severe asthma attack alone in a segregation cell at St. Clair prison, but because the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) no longer provides full autopsies for […]