Alabama Department of Corrections

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter In order to inflate the number of prisoners being housed in State-run prisons possibly to make a better case to build new prisons, Alabama Department of Corrections officials last year began moving dozens of prisoners being held in county facilities, several County Sheriffs said during a meeting Wednesday at the … Continued

Sam Mattison Alabama Political Reporter The Alabama Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would allow the release of prisoners under certain medical conditions. The bill would require the Department of Corrections to publish an annual list of inmates that have been in an infirmary or in a physician’s care for more than 30 days. From … Continued

By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — The Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery-based civil rights legal organization, doesn’t believe Gov. Robert Bentley’s plan to build four new prisons to replace Alabama’s aging corrections infrastructure solves the State’s underlying problems. Bentley and Corrections Commissioner Jefferson Dunn plan to push for the Prison Transformation Initiative again during … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Michael G. Hubbard has been found guilty of 12 felony counts of public corruption, and he will be sentenced for those crimes on July 8, by Judge Jacob Walker, III. What happens after his sentencing has been a question often raised, after the most powerful man in Alabama politics … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—Recent turmoil and violence at the Holman Prison has brought sharp focus on the boiling caldron that is the State’s Department of Corrections. Gov. Robert Bentley has championed the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative Act as a potential solution to prison overcrowding and other ills……but at what cost? On the … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter Recently, I accompanied my wife, Susan, and radio-host-politico, Baron Coleman, on a tour of the Elmore County Correctional Facility. To call spending any time in a state correctional facility a tour is much like labeling a sudden face-to-face with an alligator at a petting zoo. Prisons in Alabama are … Continued

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY—A year ago last week, the Alabama Department of Corrections’ Commissioner Kim Thomas stood before a group of journalists, legislators, government officials and concerned citizens to release the findings from a study by the National Institute of Corrections, (NIC) into conditions at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in … Continued

By Brandon Moseley and Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, January 17 the U.S. Department of Justice announced that their investigation into the state of Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women found that the State of Alabama prison system has been acting in an unconstitutional manner and that management of the State’s prison system … Continued