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Special session on prison construction to begin Monday

The state is being sued by the U.S. Department of Justice over Alabama's deadly prisons.

September 22, 2021

Some Alabama hospitals are burning through reserves battling COVID, and the state's ICU bed crisis continues to threaten care for all patients.

September 20, 2021

The DOJ says new prisons alone won't solve Alabama's crisis. Republicans need Democratic support to pass a prison construction bill.

September 20, 2021

The special session is set for Sept. 27.

September 17, 2021

The proposal calls for building two new prisons for men, one women's prison, renovations to several others and the closure of four prisons.

September 8, 2021

The students are joined by the prosecutor in the man's trial, former Attorney General Bill Baxley and others in asking for a new trial.

September 7, 2021

ACLU of Alabama's "Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline" report found that 53 of 139 bills that would worsen the crisis passed last session.

August 25, 2021

Willie Burks watched the handcuffed person be beaten, then afterward said "that’s fair,"according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

July 24, 2021

While youth incarceration has fallen in the U.S. over the last decade, it's fallen much less in Alabama.

July 21, 2021

Gov. Kay Ivey warned that if left unaddressed, the U.S. Department of Justice will take over Alabama's prisons.

June 16, 2021