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Stifel says it will not underwrite the private prison project after KeyBanc Capital Markets and Barclays also withdrew.

Budget Chairman Greg Albritton said expansion could cost the state as much as $300 million more than the federal government says.

Holmes is sponsoring legislation to strengthen the Alabama Memorials Preservation Act and ban tianeptine.

90 percent of Alabamians favor some type of reform to the state's prison systems, but there is little agreement on what efforts should be pursued.

Thursday, Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) spoke to the Alabama Association of County Commissioners about the prison crisis and told them that “Construction is going to be on the table.” “When you look at the facilities, some of them are so old that it is not cost productive to put money in to … Continued

Wednesday, the Governor’s Prison Study Commission met in Montgomery to hear criticism of the Alabama Department of Corrections from inmate advocates. “In the last ten months 13 inmates have been murdered,” former Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb (D). It takes 34 states combined to equal that number. “22 individuals in the last two years have … Continued

Tuesday, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles denied parole for five more offenders deemed too violent for early release. The Board denied parole to Vondale Parker is a violent criminal who just last week punched a prison employee in the face. Parker has had a long criminal career, with seven convictions in Marshall County. … Continued

Thursday, Alabamians for Fair Justice released a statement critical of Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn’s tenure in charge of the state’s prisons. “Under Commissioner Dunn’s leadership, Alabama’s prison system is in a constitutional crisis,” the activist group claimed. “There have been at least 20 verified deaths due to homicide, suicide or overdose in … Continued