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.
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ADOC rescinds healthcare contract, will start a new search for provider
ADOC had selected YesCare to be its new health and mental health care provider on June 30.
Four dead in Alabama prisons over the weekend
The deaths marked yet another deadly weekend for the state's incarcerated population.
Official missteps, not “good time” laws, led to accused police shooter’s release
The defendant was released on good time, despite committing multiple crimes while incarcerated.
Report details racial discrimination, violation of human rights in Southern prisons
The report describes the widespread, disparate harms resulting from the arrests, harsh prison sentences, and incarceration on Black communities.
Incarcerated man dies at Donaldson Correctional Facility
Donaldson is 149.7 percent over capacity, housing 1,449 incarcerated individuals in a facility designed to hold 968.
Governor Ivey signs Nick Risner Act into law
It will bar those convicted of using a deadly weapon to kill someone from being released early under Alabama’s “Good Time” law.
April 14, 2022
Alabama Legislature passes bill ending practice of shackling pregnant women
Alabama was the last Southern state to shackle and solitarily confine incarcerated pregnant women.
Alabama Senate passes bill to delay fees for released prisoners
The bill would delay fines and fees for the recently released for 180 days.
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