


Ronnie Peoples is free! Sentenced to life without parole for offenses with no physical injury, Mr. Peoples was respected and beloved at St. Clair prison. But it took a cancer diagnosis for him to be released.
News
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Research
Ronnie Peoples stood alongside Bradley Black in St. Clair Correctional Facility and the two men hugged before Mr. Peoples walked outside as a free man for the first time in 33 years.
Mr.…

Happy 25th Anniversary Alabama Appleseed!
Carla Crowder
This year, Appleseed’s annual Celebrate Justice event looked back on 25 years of advocacy for marginalized and vulnerable Alabamians. We celebrated alongside longtime supporters, founding board members, elected officials, retired staff,…

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…

Welcome Summer Intern London Breedlove
Intern
My name is London Breedlove and I am so excited for the opportunity I have been given to intern with Alabama Appleseed this summer! A Mississippi native, I was brought to Alabama on a tennis scholarship at the University of Montevallo.…

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…
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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