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Eddie Burkhalter

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Eddie Burkhalter

Eddie Burkhalter is a reporter at the Alabama Political Reporter. You can email him at [email protected] or reach him via Twitter.

New interactive map details Alabama gun violence data

Alabama has the third-highest rate of gun deaths per capita in the nation, according to a recently released interactive map that details just how Alabamians die by gunfire.  In an average year 961 Alabamians die by gunfire, most of them by their own hands, with about 54.8 percent of the deaths the result of people … Continued
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November 21, 2019

Inmate found dead in Bibb Correctional Facility

A 26-year-old Huntsville man was pronounced dead at the Bibb Correctional Facility on Nov. 11, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.  Correctional officers found inmate Dewayne Foxx at around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 11 lying on his side in his bed with no visible injuries, but he appeared to have vomited on himself, according … Continued
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November 20, 2019

Equal Justice Initiative report: Alabama prisons deadliest in nation despite funding increases

So far this year, 13 Alabama inmates have been murdered, which was twice as many as were killed during the entire ten-year period between 1999 and 2009, making the state’s prisons the most dangerous in the nation, according to an Alabama nonprofit.  The Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative, which provides legal services for inmates, released the … Continued
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November 19, 2019

NPR covers Alabama’s dangerous prisons, state announces prison commissioner receives award

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn received a “National Outstanding Service” award, the department announced Thursday, the same day a nationally-syndicated radio program broadcast live from Birmingham about the state’s broken prison system.  Dunn has been selected for the 2019 Michael Francke Career Achievement Award by the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA). Kevin Kemph, executive … Continued
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November 15, 2019

SPLC: Stephen Miller, another former Sessions staffer pushed anti-immigrant stories to Breitbart

In the second story in a series published Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center,  emails show that Trump senior advisor and former aide to then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, had ties to an anti-immigrant think-tank.  The emails also shows that Miller wasn’t the only Sessions staffer to have been pushing for anti-immigrant stories … Continued
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November 15, 2019

SPLC: Emails show Trump advisor, former Jeff Sessions staffer, Stephen Miller promoted white nationalism

Leaked emails show Stephen Miller, Trump senior advisor and former staffer for then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, promoted white nationalist ideas and racist immigration stories to a conservative journalist, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which broke the story on Tuesday.  The SPLC’s first story in a series on the more than 900 emails details … Continued
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November 14, 2019

Report: Alabama children’s wellness making slight gains, but racial disparities remain

Children in Alabama are faring slightly better than they were last year across several wellness indicators, but almost 300,000 Alabama children, 26 percent, still live in poverty, and racial disparities remain across every key wellness indicator.  According to the 2019 Alabama Kids Count released publicly on Tuesday the state’s infant mortality rate is at an … Continued
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November 13, 2019