By 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 national average. Appleseed obtained last year’s death count through a records request to the Alabama Department of […]
By 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 the man was handcuffed when beaten. That officer, whom those sources identify as Sergeant Jajuan Howard, has been placed on a “noncontact […]
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By Callie Greer, Appleseed Community Navigator Since 2021, I’ve been a part of a community roundtable called the Community Advisory Group (CAG) at the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program. Six individuals were chosen and invited to lead the roundtable, and the main topic was poverty and how it’s the catalyst that precipitates life without wealth. […]
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. Black, a welding instructor at the prison’s trade school, worked for decades alongside Mr. Peoples, who kept […]
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher After he was beaten on Nov. 6th, Joshua Hamer was placed back into his bunk at Bibb Correctional Facility unconscious, and wasn’t found until the next day. He never regained consciousness and died 16 days later. Mr. Hamer, who was 41, was imprisoned on a probation violation stemming from an […]
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, and our beaming formerly incarcerated clients, who vibrantly shared their stories with the crowd. In preparation for our 25th Anniversary, we combed the archives, […]
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Daniel Terry Williams, 22, was likely smothered to death a year ago on Saturday, according to the state’s chief medical examiner, and there was evidence on his body that corroborate what witnesses have said was his kidnapping and torture over a period of several days inside Staton Correctional Facility. He […]
“I hope my case will open up people’s eyes that there’s something wrong with the judicial system. It’s broken and it’s unfair.” by Carla Crowder, Executive Director and Becca Cardin, Appleseed attorney In 2006, Charles Craig was sentenced to life in prison when prosecutors invoked Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act following his drug conviction. He […]
by 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 […]
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