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Appleseed’s reporting on Alabama’s prison crisis and our efforts to confront it
Appleseed’s reporting on Alabama’s prison crisis and our efforts to confront it






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Montgomery, Alabama 36104
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Birmingham, AL 35223
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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 […]
Chronicle of Philanthropy calls Appleseed “one of the South’s most unexpectedly effective advocacy groups.”
Home Page Updates, NewsAlabama Appleseed has been featured in the prestigious Chronicle of Philanthropy! Here’s what they’re saying: “In a state dominated by a Republican supermajority and long resistant to criminal-justice reform, Alabama Appleseed has become one of the South’s most unexpectedly effective advocacy groups.” The article traces Appleseed’s leap into legal and reentry services, beginning with the […]
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. Sam Givhan, R-Huntsville, would give the parole board greater discretion when someone on parole is arrested for a minor […]