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Carla Crowder2023-09-11 05:11:512023-09-11 09:26:45Fighting for parole for a son who is fighting for his life
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Carla Crowder2023-07-17 16:23:352023-07-17 19:38:12How an idea becomes a bill becomes a law: Looking back at the campaign to curb debt-based drivers license suspensions in Alabama
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Carla Crowder2023-04-27 15:40:432023-04-27 15:43:15Why this report?
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Carla Crowder2023-04-27 09:31:282023-04-27 09:37:11¡HICA!: “They know that we’re scared to call the police.”
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Carla Crowder2023-04-25 10:46:012023-04-25 10:58:11Summer's Story
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For Jerry Boatwright, freedom is a hammer, a paintbrush, and a chance to take care of his family after 3 decades in prison
Carla Crowder, Scott FuquaBy Carla Crowder, Executive Director and Scott Fuqua, Staff Attorney Jerry Boatwright spent 34 years in an Alabama prison for a burglary conviction. He was supposed to die there. Instead, he’s home just in time to become the primary caregiver for his ailing brother, Randy. Jerry, 64, has always been a hard worker. At Holman […]
“It’s hardest on stairs.”
Eddie BurkhalterThe worsening toll of Stage 4 cancer in an Alabama prison. This is a follow up to our first story on Ronnie Peoples in Appleseed’s series “Cruel and Unusual” focusing on the people harmed by Alabama’s overreliance on excessive sentences, which trap people in deadly, dysfunctional prisons long after they have paid their debt. By […]
Forty years in prison for cannabis plants. Yes, we’re still doing that in Alabama.
Carla CrowderThis story is part of Appleseed’s “Cruel and Unusual” series, focusing on the people harmed by Alabama’s overreliance on excessive sentences, which trap people in deadly, dysfunctional prisons long after they have paid their debt. By Carla Crowder, Executive Director Every night after Leon Hotchkiss finishes up at the south Alabama boat dealership where he […]