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Alabama voters say mental health a top concern, support funding

More than 90 percent of Alabamians identify mental health as a key priority for the state.
January 25, 2024

Sewell announces grants to help the homeless

Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Selma) announced that the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has recently awarded $11,445,018 to local “Continuums of Care” (CoCs) across Alabama’s 7th Congressional District. HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) Program works with local non-profit providers and state and local governments (CoCs) to end homelessness, providing rapid … Continued
January 22, 2020

Andrew Brasher still isn’t fit to serve as a federal judge

It is not news that Donald Trump has nominated partisan hacks to serve as federal judges — at pretty much every level.  Hacks are his thing.  (In reality, Trump likely has never nominated anyone, just stamped his absurd signature on whatever list of rightwing idealogues the Federalist Society plopped down in front him.) But I … Continued
January 15, 2020

Ivey to build prisons come hell or legislative high water

Gov. Kay Ivey is going to build three new high-level security prisons to house the state’s most violent offenders and those inmates who are plagued by infirmities and mental illness. Ivey will build these three new correctional facilities come hell or legislative high water because it is right, not because it’s popular. It’s about time … Continued
February 13, 2019

An Alabama Solution to an Alabama Problem: Rebuilding the Alabama Corrections System

In order to correct a problem, you must first admit there is a problem. In Alabama, we have a problem. Our problem is our state’s corrections system. Like many other states, issues of violence, poor living conditions and mental illness persist within our system. These issues, and others, are exacerbated by a crowded inmate population, … Continued
February 12, 2019

No, Mr. Marshall, it’s you

A few hours after Bridgette Gentry Marshall ended her life on Sunday, June 24, her husband, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, approved a press release that exposed her, “long struggle with mental illness.” Just days later on Wednesday the 27, Marshall summoned the state’s news media to the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Albertville where, in … Continued
July 2, 2018