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We’re Hiring a Legal Fellow to Join Our Team Fighting for a Better Alabama

About Alabama Appleseed: Alabama Appleseed is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999 whose mission is to achieve justice and equity for all Alabamians. Alabama Appleseed conducts integrated culture and policy change…

Celebrating the freedom and birthday of another Appleseed client

Alabama prisons, Alex LaGanke, Habitual Felony Offender Act, News, Ronald McKeithen

We are thrilled to announce the release of another client, Joe Bennett, today – his first free world birthday in 24 years. Once sentenced to die in prison, Mr. Bennett walked out of Donaldson Correctional Facility on September 21, 2021, after…

"Buildings Aren't Killing People." Appleseed Supports Safe Prisons. But Much More Is Required Than New Buildings.

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Appleseed Executive Director Carla Crowder delivered the following remarks to the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee on September 28, 2021 in opposition to the HB 4, a bill to spend $1.2 billion dollars on two new 4,000-bed prisons. My…

“If you owe money, it doesn’t go away.”

Fines and Fees, Leah Nelson

A judge with a troubling history is again taking extreme measure to hold people accountable for decades-old government debt By Leah Nelson Leah.Nelson@alabamaappleseed.org An Alabama judge with a history of using drastic measures to prompt…

A Cruel Set-Up

Alabama prisons, Leah Nelson

Once condemned to die in prison, Motis Wright is finally free - and enrolled in robotics class.

Alabama prisons, Carla Crowder, Habitual Felony Offender Act, News

By Carla Crowder, Appleseed Executive Director Motis Wright, who was originally sentenced to die in prison under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act for a 1994 robbery conviction, was released on time served after being represented by…