Alabama Appleseed

Prisons

Art exhibition to feature works of current, formerly incarcerated individuals

The organizations are working together to create an arts exhibition called “Changing the Course."

November 11, 2021

Alabama House committee approves $1.3 billion prison construction plan

The three bills now head to the full House for a possible vote Wednesday.

September 28, 2021

Nonprofit asks that federal COVID aid be used to aid re-entry, prevent incarceration

Alabama Appleseed says the incarcerated and recently released were failed by state prisons during the pandemic.

July 22, 2021

Alabama Appleseed awards another NFL grant for criminal justice reform work

The NFL noted the nonprofit's success in freeing Ronald McKeithen from a life sentence in March.

May 10, 2021

Letter to lawmakers: Repeal Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act

165 former judges and prosecutors, professors and public defenders signed on in support of Rep. Chris England's bill to repeal HFOA.

February 22, 2021

Pandemic heavily impacts low-income, minority Alabamians: report

The pandemic has exacerbated inequalities that face poor, Black Alabamians, with the Black Belt hit hardest.

December 28, 2020

Report: Black men in Alabama prisons three times more likely to die by homicide

Incarcerated Black people in the state are being murdered at just more than three times the rate of white people.

November 13, 2020

Sean Worsley, Black disabled veteran arrested for medical marijuana, gets parole

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles granted Worsley parole on Wednesday.

October 16, 2020

Prisoners quarantined at formerly closed prison kept in unconstitutional conditions, groups say

Conditions are so bad that inmates have been forced to urinate and defacate on themselves because restrooms are not accessible, the complaint alleges.

September 18, 2020

Judge denies Worsley’s request to serve sentence outside prison

A judge last week denied Sean Worsley’s request to be transferred to a community corrections program instead of prison for an August 2016 arrest for marijuana possession. Worsley is facing a five-year sentence in the Alabama Department of Corrections after his probation was revoked in April. “Because the Defendant has fled this jurisdiction both times … Continued

September 7, 2020