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Carla Crowder2026-02-08 18:16:032026-02-08 18:17:19Chronicle of Philanthropy calls Appleseed "one of the South's most unexpectedly effective advocacy groups."
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 […]