Welcome Legal Extern Tayler Walton
Intern
My name is Tayler Walton and I have the absolute privilege of working for Alabama Appleseed this summer as their legal intern. I am a rising 3L at Cumberland School of Law and I could not be more ecstatic to be working for an…
Joseph Raines has a new life at age 69. Now we just have to prove he was born.
Carla CrowderBy Carla Crowder, Executive Director
Joseph Raines spent 43 years in Alabama’s prison system for a robbery conviction. At age 69, he was still working in St. Clair prison’s vehicle restoration plant, lifting heavy pieces of metal…
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
Leah NelsonTurning memories into art with people who have lost loved ones to violence
By Leah Nelson, Research Director
Alabama Appleseed spent much of 2022 and 2023 traveling the state and talking with victims of violent crime. We focused…
Birmingham Re-entry Alliance is hiring a Case Manager
NewsThe Birmingham Re-entry Alliance is an innovative, collaborative reentry support and case management system for individuals returning to Birmingham following incarceration in state prison. Our network will combine the necessary services for…
Welcome to JD/MD Intern Alana C. Nichols
NewsMy name is Alana C. Nichols and it is with immense excitement and gratitude that I announce an internship with Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. I am currently a third year Internal Medicine and Pediatrics resident at University…
Latest News
- Fentanyl is killing people inside Alabama’s largest, most expensive law enforcement agency – the Alabama Department of Corrections August 14, 2024
- Less than one year into a short prison sentence, Wesley Abernathy is gone. He was only 31. July 23, 2024
- Welcome Summer Intern Katia Apedoh July 19, 2024
- In an overcrowded prison dorm with no correctional officers present, a beloved brother and son is killed, one of four deaths at Donaldson prison in three days. July 2, 2024
- Another death in an Alabama prison, another grieving family June 24, 2024
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Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice
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Montgomery, Alabama 36104
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Birmingham, AL 35223
Phone: (205) 963-7999
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Fentanyl is killing people inside Alabama’s largest, most expensive law enforcement agency – the Alabama Department of Corrections
Eddie Burkhalterby Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher The lives of two young men, both 31, who died 23 days apart this year in separate Alabama prisons, were ended largely by the same drug, according to state medical examiners. Overdose deaths, and especially those deaths known or suspected of being caused by fentanyl, have soared in the state’s […]
Less than one year into a short prison sentence, Wesley Abernathy is gone. He was only 31.
Eddie BurkhalterBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Like many Alabama families, Wesley Abernathy’s mother, wife, and sister paid thousands of dollars in extortion payments hoping the money would keep him alive during his short sentence in an Alabama prison. “We have gotten threats from other inmates in there. I was suckered into paying money,” his sister, Darby […]
Welcome Summer Intern Katia Apedoh
Intern, News“Alabama Appleseed is a natural bridge between the diversity, equity, and inclusion work that I have done in high school and what I plan to do in college. I am so grateful to Appleseed for the opportunity to learn about the problems that impact justice-involved people in Alabama and see what it means to be an […]