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Alabama prisons in June had the fifth highest number of COVID deaths per capita in the nation.
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Alabama Political Reporter
- Elections
Motion to dismiss filed, hearing set in House District 10 election challenge
Republican candidate for Conecuh County sheriff files election contest
Constitutional amendments now in effect
Election challenge filed over District 10 House seat
Phillip Ensler brings focus on education, public safety as newly elected state rep
- Governor
- Legislature
Rep. Jim Hill asks ACCA members to support sentencing reform
Analysis | Alabama Legislature considered most conservative in U.S.
Analysis | What’s ahead for the new quadrennium?
GOP Speaker nominee Ledbetter announces second round of committee chairs
Mobile eye doctor Shirey brings healthcare perspective to Legislature
- Economy
PARCA: Tax collections rise, but inflation will cost the state government
Legislative leaders cast ambitious vision to grow Alabama’s economy
Wage gap task force narrows recommendations
Governor promotes Small Business Saturday through proclamation
Online jobs ads in October up 17.3 percent from last year
- National
Sewell votes for Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act
Sewell votes to enshrine marriage equality under federal law
Sewell urges House leadership to consider Medicare screening coverage bill
Rep. Sewell votes to avert national rail shutdown
Sewell nominates Hakeem Jeffries to serve as next Democratic leader
- Education
Birmingham City Council approves $1 million in funds for conflict resolution schools
Filmore named director of governmental relations at Troy University
Ivey awards $1.3 million in university research grants
Ivey declares November as “Thank Alabama Teachers Month”
Education scorecard shows how Alabama districts held up during pandemic
- Health
State appeals to lift injunction on law criminalizing treatment of transgender youth
Alabama abortion advocates discuss post-Roe reality
Southern Research and Rhodium Scientific send bacteria to space
Cannabis Association issues deadline alert amid increase in applications
As COVID-19 wanes, UAB doctors warn of potential “triple-demic”
- Opinion
prison overcrowding stories
Legislature
This legislation would apply upon successful completion of a qualifying academic, vocational, risk-reducing or apprenticeship program.
Legislature
Rep. Jim Hill's bill makes retroactive a 2015 law that mandates early release and supervision for some.
Legislature
The bills address community corrections, judicial discretion in sentencing and the cost of housing state inmates in county jails.
Legislature
The cases would go back to the trial judge, not the Pardons and Paroles Board.
Legislature
The bills would continue a trend of more progressive reforms that are slowly rolling back mandatory minimum sentencing laws.
Legislature
The Habitual Felony Offender Act was aimed at stopping crime by giving a life sentence to anyone with three serious felonies.
News
This is the largest group of probation and parole officers sworn in by the bureau in years.
News
Alabamians Who Care will be leading a protest caravan to the Governor’s Mansion to protest Gov. Kay Ivey’s controversial plan for the Alabama Department...
Legislature
Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn told members of the Senate budget committees Thursday that the department is moving forward with the process...
