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A resource for Alabamians to learn about the human rights crisis in Alabama state prisons, share their knowledge with others, and work for change Since 2019, when the United States Department of Justice issued a 56-page report calling out unconstitutional…

Appleseed's Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor

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By Carla Crowder, Appleseed Executive Director FLORENCE Ala., -- When I lived in Florence in the 1980s and 1990s, I was pretty average, at best. There was one thing I did well. I shot free throws, and for three years in a row I represented…

Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma

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My name is Nicholas Thoma and I’m thrilled to be working with Alabama Appleseed this fall as a legal extern. I’m originally from Pennsylvania but have called Alabama home for the last five years since I came to the University of Alabama…

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.

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By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher The family of a 25-year-old man with just over a year left to serve on nonviolent property crimes believes he may have died from a severe asthma attack alone in a segregation cell at St. Clair prison,…

Alabama Department of Corrections: $5 billion in spending in five years

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As legislative budget hearings take place this week in Montgomery, it’s a good time to review the recent costs to Alabama taxpayers for our prison system, which consumes 25% of the state’s General Fund budget. An Appleseed analysis…

Appleseed's latest report shows that 'Safer prisons are within reach.'

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By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Alabama’s prison system is in crisis. Federal courts have said so. Back-to-back years of record prison deaths show it. The people who live and work inside those facilities feel it every day. Violence,…

The State of Justice Blog

Learn, Connect, Advocate -- Appleseed’s Prison Reform Toolbox

Appleseed's Executive Director is inducted into Florence Walk of Honor

Appleseed welcomes UA legal extern Nicholas Thoma

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.

Alabama Department of Corrections: $5 billion in spending in five years

Appleseed's latest report shows that 'Safer prisons are within reach.'

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