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Carla Crowder2025-07-03 07:56:222025-07-03 08:10:06Appleseed Welcomes Intern MaKenzie Smith
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Carla Crowder2025-07-03 07:56:222025-07-03 08:10:06Appleseed Welcomes Intern MaKenzie Smith
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Carla Crowder2025-06-30 16:19:162025-06-30 16:30:04Welcome Appleseed Intern, Wyatt Williams
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Carla Crowder2025-06-25 17:54:502025-06-25 17:54:50Appleseed Welcomes Summer Intern James Stephens
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Carla Crowder2025-06-11 17:50:292025-09-10 10:15:23"Underneath the quilt you're safe."
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Carla Crowder2025-05-19 15:18:502025-05-19 15:18:50$57 Million in Tax Dollars: Investigative Reporter Documents Disturbing Pattern of Costly Excessive Force Settlements at Alabama Department of Corrections
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Carla Crowder2025-05-11 13:10:052025-05-11 13:10:05Appleseed is hiring a Legal Fellow to help launch new program supporting justice-involved womenJoin our Action Network
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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 […]
Alabama Department of Corrections: $5 billion in spending in five years
Home Page Updates, NewsAs legislative budget hearings take place this week in Montgomery, it’s a good time to review the recent costs to Alabama taxpayers for our prison system, which consumes 25% of the state’s General Fund budget. An Appleseed analysis has found that state prison expenses over five years are $5 billion. That’s right, if you include […]
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, understaffing, and overcrowded dorms are pushing the system past a breaking point, and while new prison construction […]