
Appleseed Welcomes Executive Assistant Keely Sutton
NewsBy Keely Sutton
My name is Keely Sutton and I am delighted to be Carla’s new Executive Assistant at Alabama Appleseed. For years I have used Appleseed’s reports and succinct summaries of important social justice issues in Alabama—mass…

Welcome home James Jones! Appleseed's 20th client - and longest serving - is freed from a life without parole sentence.
NewsBy Scott Fuqua, Appleseed Staff Attorney
On December 18, 2024, James Jones, age 77, walked out of the St. Clair Correctional Facility a free man after being incarcerated for forty-three years. He was serving a life without parole sentence…

Welcome Legal Extern Joe Manasco
Intern, News
My name is Joe Manasco. I will be an extern this semester at Alabama Appleseed,
assisting with legal research. I am a proud Alabamian (I call both Huntsville and Jasper
my hometowns) and a 2L at Georgetown Law.
Growing up, I didn’t have…

Death toll inside Alabama prisons reaches 277 in 2024
Alabama prisons, Author, Eddie Burkhalter, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
There were 277 deaths in Alabama prisons in 2024, a slight decline from the record high 325 from the previous year, but the state’s prison deaths remain more than four times the…

Incarcerated man hospitalized after “use of force” by ADOC sergeant at St. Clair prison
Author, Eddie Burkhalter, Habitual Felony Offender Act, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
Days before the close of 2024, a 53-year-old incarcerated man at St. Clair Correctional Facility was beaten by an officer, requiring hospitalization, according to sources, who tell Appleseed…
Latest News
- Celebrate Justice: Live at Woodlawn Theatre, Thursday, November 6, 2025 September 30, 2025
- Appleseed’s Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor September 28, 2025
- Welcome Appleseed intern and UAB Senior Anahita Maleknia September 18, 2025
- Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma September 16, 2025
- 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. August 28, 2025
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