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Corrections asks for $42 million budget increase

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn presented the ADOC fiscal year 2020 budget request to an Alabama joint House and Senate budget committee meeting in Montgomery. “The Department of Corrections is undergoing unprecedented change,” Dunn said. The ADOC is, “Transforming the department into the most respected and trusted law enforcement agency in the state.” … Continued
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January 31, 2019

Department of Corrections taps former federal prison official as new deputy commissioner

The Alabama Department of Corrections has chosen a new deputy commissioner. The department on Monday announced the appointment of a longtime federal prisons official, Charles Daniels, as the new deputy commissioner of operations. Daniels arrives at the Alabama Department of Corrections at a time of difficulty, as the department has been struggling with aging and overcrowded prisons … Continued
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January 8, 2019

Sexual misconduct allegations at Department of Corrections kept from public by bureaucracy

A top official at the Alabama Department of Corrections was allowed to retire quietly after reportedly confessing to inappropriate sexual relations with multiple women in his chain of command. Grantt D. Culliver, Associate Commissioner with the Alabama Department of Corrections, retired effective Nov. 30, 2018, with his full state pension and a check for approximately … Continued
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January 7, 2019

Noted community activist charged with capital murder

Rev. Kenneth Glasgow is under arrest and charged with capital murder after the Sunday killing of a Dothan woman. Glasgow is the half-brother of activist Rev. Al Sharpton. Glasgow was the leader of a march against gun violence in Alabama on Saturday. Sunday night, Breunia Jennings, 23, of Dothan was shot and killed. Glasgow has … Continued
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March 27, 2018

ADOC opens bidding for firm to develop a comprehensive plan for prison projects

By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Department of Corrections is opening bidding for a team to oversee a comprehensive plan to improve the state’s corrections infrastructure — just months after the department’s own plan to build four new mega-prisons, dubbed the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative, died in the final days of the legislative session. … Continued
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November 6, 2017

Prison healthcare plan proposed

By Staff  Alabama Political Reporter On Thursday, Quality Correctional Health Care and the University of Alabama at Birmingham will present to the Alabama Department of Corrections a comprehensive plan to provide enhanced healthcare services for the 21,000 inmates housed in the state prison system. In June 2017, a federal judge ruled that the mental health … Continued
October 10, 2017

Special Session on Alabama prisons expected

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Wednesday, June 27, 2017, US District Judge Myron H. Thompson declared the mental health care system in Alabama prisons to be “horrendously inadequate.” Judge Thompson said that the prisons are an unconstitutional failure that has resulted in a “skyrocketing suicide rate” among prisoners over the last two years. … Continued
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July 7, 2017

Questions hang over massive prison bill

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter The push to build four new correctional facilities at the cost of $800 million will soon begin in earnest. Still, many questions are left unanswered by legislations known as the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative (APTI). The plan at present says the estimated $1.5 billion bond issuance will be paid … Continued
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February 20, 2017