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Two sentenced for conspiring to bring illegal narcotics into Staton Correctional Facility

Lamar Graves Jr., 42, and Derrick Antwon Traylor, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
February 17, 2023

With liberty and justice for all

As peaceful protests over the last week have been marred by violence and looting, the nation should be asking what kind of country we are and what we are to become? Are we to be the shining city on a hill or a lord of the flies kingdom of warring factions? Most of the protesters … Continued
June 3, 2020

Jeff Sessions is a 21st Century profile in courage

As is the case with many of my fellow Alabamians, I am a strong supporter of President Trump in the substance of what he has accomplished but I am from time to time disappointed by his style. The President’s repeated attacks on my old friend, Jeff Sessions, for recusing himself when he was Attorney General … Continued
May 15, 2020

Phone problems, lack of information on COVID-19 worry inmates at Ventress prison

Gregory Anderson, Jr. was released from Ventress Correctional Facility on March 25, carrying legal papers and the only items the prison provides — $10 “on a card,” a pair of clothes and a bus ticket. Ventress gives these three items to everyone released, nothing more. Gregory, too, got a bus ticket, even though the bus … Continued
May 9, 2020

Remembering civil rights icon Rev. Joseph E. Lowery

Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC, Rev. Joseph E. Lowery died on March 27, 2020.  He and his clerical brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisaged SCLC as the national platform needed to inveigh segregation, materialism, and militarism in the South and nation. King became the first SCLC president in 1957, a position … Continued
April 2, 2020