For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners (Psalm 69:33) We are facing a crisis unlike any in...
Tuesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) laid out an ambitious agenda in her annual State of the State Address that includes: building three new prisons, a...
During her annual State of the State address to a packed joint session of the Alabama legislature in the Old House Chambers of the historic state...
The Alabama Legislature returns to Montgomery today for the 2020 legislative session. Both Houses of the Legislature will meet this afternoon for organizational sessions at the...
The State of Alabama continues to pursue shortsighted, counterproductive solutions to the unprecedented crisis in Alabama prisons. Today the Alabama Department of Corrections announced the partial...
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...
A new decade has begun and the Legislature returns to Montgomery in just 29 days. As the Alabama Legislature begins a new session there are many...
The problems that lay before the Alabama Legislature in the coming 2020 session are complex but not so Byzantine as to be unsolvable. Of the many...
Wednesday, the Executive Director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama Sonny Brasfield told county commissioners that sentencing reform in 2015 has shifted more prisoners...
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...
