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New report recounts checkered history of Alabama’s prison healthcare provider

The company took advantage of a complicated bankruptcy process to shed liabilities and lawsuits against it for inadequate care.

October 19, 2023

Officials raise spending cap on new Elmore County prison to nearly $1 billion

In a contract signed last year, the expected cost to build the new 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County was $623 million.

March 16, 2023

Committee OKs contract renewal with prison health provider Wexford Health Services

The $117,800,000 contract is for roughly six months until the ADOC can develop and release a new competitive RFP process.

September 2, 2022

Alabama’s contract with prison construction company being redacted

The contract with Montgomery-based Caddell Construction was signed April 15.

April 27, 2022

Alabama’s virtual schools weren’t supposed to be like this

If used properly, the virtual schools model could have been quite a money-maker for cash-strapped districts where parents were opting for private schools or homeschooling. It has mostly not worked like that.

August 17, 2020

“We don’t want no charter school and we don’t want no Muslims”

The gentleman who made this statement was one of 200 people who came to the Washington County high school in Chatom on Monday night, April 29. He was probably in his 60’s. His face was weathered and he wore a baseball cap and work shirt. Like everyone else in the auditorium, he had sat attentively as … Continued

May 1, 2019

The Montgomery School Board rejected a charter application. It was the right move.

It will be deemed the fault of the Montgomery County School Board that a plan for four conversion charter schools did not pass on Tuesday. Do not listen to that nonsense. The MPS board did what was right. It did what any group of people charged with oversight of a public school district should have … Continued

February 20, 2019

ADOC could be held in contempt for failing to meet mental health staffing requirements

The Alabama Department of Corrections could be held in more legal peril for failing to meet multiple deadlines for required mental health staffing in Alabama prisons. ADOC officials are appearing Tuesday at a contempt hearing before U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson. The hearing, which comes nearly 10 months after Thompson ordered ADOC to increase mental … Continued

December 11, 2018

Byrne applauds Austal on LCS contract

Tuesday, the U.S. Navy awarded two of three Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to Austal USA. Congress appropriated funds for 3 LCS in Fiscal Year 2019. Two of those will be built by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama. The third will be built by Lockheed Martin in Marinette, Wisconsin. Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-Montrose) applauded Austal for … Continued

September 20, 2018