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Summer's Story
Leah NelsonBy Leah Nelson, Research Director from the Appleseed report Afterward
Summer Sturdivant, an activist and pastry chef from Selma, Ala., watched her little brother die. He lay in the street while the police captured the man who shot him.…
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Four Years After the U.S. Department of Justice Warning, Alabama's Prisons Have Only Gotten Worse
Alabama prisons, Carla Crowder, Eddie BurkhalterState leaders promised to find an Alabama Solution to the “deeply humiliating” federal findings. But 698 incarcerated people have since died in state prisons, a new $1 billion prison will not open until 2026, and the federal trial is scheduled…
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Leaving prison and finding joy at age 88
Alabama prisons, Carla CrowderJohn Coleman served 34 years for offenses involving no physical injury under Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act. Now he’s free and experiencing kindness for the first time in way too long.
By Carla Crowder, Executive Director
“I’m…
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So far this year, someone has died every other day in an Alabama prison.
Alabama prisons, Eddie Burkhalter, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
Alabama prison deaths are again surging, after state prisons saw a record high year of deaths in 2022.
At least eight men have died in Alabama prisons this month, following 12 deaths in…
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Alabama leaders promised an automated, statewide victim notification system 15 years ago. We’re still waiting for it.
Eddie Burkhalter, NewsBy Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher
Politicians across Alabama expressed concern and outrage when victims were not notified in advance of planned releases of several hundred people from Alabama Department of Corrections…
Latest News
- Less than one year into a short prison sentence, Wesley Abernathy is gone. He was only 31. July 23, 2024
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- Another death in an Alabama prison, another grieving family June 24, 2024
- Welcome Summer Intern London Breedlove June 13, 2024
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