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Prisons

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.

John H. Glenn

February 17, 2023

Incarcerated man from Staton Correctional Facility removed from life support

Willie Jones Jr, an incarcerated man being treated at Baptist South Medical Center in Montgomery, died on Jan. 6.

John H. Glenn

January 11, 2023

Former Alabama correctional officer gets more than seven years in prison on drug charges

Gary Charles Dixon, Jr. pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility.

Eddie Burkhalter

November 18, 2021

Alabama’s first apprenticeship for early childhood educators established

This fall, two apprentices at the Coleman Center for Early Learning will serve as a pilot group.

October 28, 2021

Former Alabama attorney general, chief justices support new trial for man on death row

The state's top legal minds asked the court to follow requests from the Jefferson County district attorney and prosecutor to grant a new trial.

Eddie Burkhalter

March 10, 2021

Opinion

A day to celebrate change and renewal

"As citizens, we all should celebrate this day and wish President Biden and Vice President Harris success beyond measure."

Bill Britt

January 20, 2021

Opinion

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

Bill Britt

June 3, 2020

Opinion

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

Champ Lyons Jr.

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

Matthew Vernon Whalan, special to APR

May 9, 2020

Opinion

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

Derryn Moten

April 2, 2020