Reports
Alabama Appleseed examines systemic drivers of poverty and inequity and offers evidence-based solutions for a brighter way forward. Read our reports.
Taking a Life
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| With life sentences, the State of Alabama controls thousands of rehabilitated individuals long past the point of danger, until death. But why? |
Positive Programs
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| Lessons for prison systems across the United States where innovative reforms are curbing violence, reducing staff turnover and improving public safety. |
Taken for a Ride
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| How excessive ticketing and police decisions propel Alabama drivers into a cycle of debt, incarceration. |
Afterward
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| When violence occurs in Alabama, the state’s concept of justice leaves out many victims, survivors & their communities. What would they say if we asked them? |
Unsustainable
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| Older prisoners have quickly shifted from a small group on the fringes to nearly a quarter of Alabama’s entire prison population. |
A Bitter Pill
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| Alabama combines the nation’s highest opioid prescription rates with the nation’s deadliest prisons. Something must change. |
Flattened
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| How the COVID-19 pandemic knocked financially insecure Alabamians on their backs and widened the racial prosperity gap |
New Prisons for Old Men?
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| The number of young people in Alabama prisons has been cut in half over the last 15 years. Meanwhile, the number of people over age 50 has doubled. |
Condemned
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Hundreds of men are sentenced to die in prison for crimes with no physical injury. They haven’t given up on life. Why has Alabama given up on them?
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Stalled
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| How Alabama’s destructive practice of suspending driver’s licenses for unpaid traffic debt hurts people & slows economic progress |
Death Traps
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| An examination of the routine, violent deaths of people in the custody of the State of Alabama from 2014 through 2020. |
When You Are a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail
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Alabama has the worst prisons in the country. Why building new prisons will do nothing to solve old problems in Alabama
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State Prison Investigation
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The U.S. Department of Justice found Alabama’s entire state prison system for men unconstitutional.
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In Trouble
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| How diversion clashes with the reality of poverty, addiction, and structural racism in Alabama’s justice system |
Hall Monitors with Handcuffs
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How Alabama’s school resource officer program threatens the state’s most vulnerable children
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Under Pressure — Fines and Fees
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| How fines and fees hurt people, undermine public safety, and drive Alabama’s racial wealth divide. |
Alabama’s War on Marijuana
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Assessing the fiscal and human toll of criminalization of Alabama’s war on marijuana
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Broke — Payday Lending
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| How payday lenders crush Alabama communities, swooping in to extract profits from hard-working people |
Forfeiting Your Rights — Civil Asset Forfeiture
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| How Alabama’s profit-driven civil asset forfeiture scheme undercuts due process and property rights |
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