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Prisons ask for $42 million budget increase in 2021

Thursday the House and Senate General Fund budget committees were in Montgomery for a rare joint session as all of the State General Fund (SGF) department heads made their 2021 budget requests. Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeffrey S. Dunn requested $563 million in FY2021 – a $42 million increase from the 2020 budget. Dunn … Continued

January 24, 2020

Zeigler Promotes Alternative to Enormously Expensive Bentley Prison Plan

By Brandon Moseley Monday, January 30, 2017 Alabama State Auditor Jim Zeigler (R) will present his alternative to solve Alabama’s prison overcrowding to the Prison Reform Committee Monday. The committee meeting will be at 10:00 a.m. in room 325 of the Statehouse. State Auditor Jim Zeigler is promoting his ‘Plan Z’ as “a cheaper and … Continued

January 30, 2017

England Says Prison Task Force Likely to Be Presenting Ideas to Federal Judge

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter State Representative Christopher John England (D) from Tuscaloosa warns that he expects the State to be sued over its prison conditions and fears that the State could be forced to spend more money for new prisons and/or release numerous potentially dangerous inmates in to Alabama communities by federal authorities. … Continued

June 12, 2014

Governor Bentley Addresses Prison Reform

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Tuesday, June 10, Alabama Governor Robert Bentley (R) announced in a press conference that he was launching the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a comprehensive study of the State’s criminal justice system that the State hopes will identify ways to implement more cost effective criminal justice policies. The Council … Continued

June 11, 2014

House Passes General Fund Budget

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter In a Wednesday afternoon session, the Alabama House of Representatives passed the Fiscal Year 2015 General Fund budget, House Bill 235, which goes into place on October 1. Because of Alabama’s archaic budgeting practices, education has its own separate budget, with monies earmarked by the Alabama Constitution for both … Continued

February 28, 2014

Tutwiler Conditions Ruled Unconstitutional by DOJ

By Brandon Moseley and Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter On Friday, January 17 the U.S. Department of Justice announced that their investigation into the state of Alabama’s Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women found that the State of Alabama prison system has been acting in an unconstitutional manner and that management of the State’s prison system … Continued

January 20, 2014