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In his February 2017 State of the State address, Governor Bentley talked in more detail about his proposed three-faceted approach to overhaul the Department of Corrections: "One, close Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women and build a new 1,200 bed women’s facility; Two, consolidate 13 of 15 close- and medium-security men’s facilities into three ...
The Alabama prison system has been under heightened federal scrutiny for several years. A federal judge ruled in 2017 that mental health care of state inmates is “horrendously inadequate."
Alabama sends so many people to prison that the state can no longer safely house its inmates, consequences of a tough-on-crime mentality among politicians and the public that keeps aggressive ...
Alabama was last in the country to outlaw judicial override in 2017, a decision its critics viewed as an overdue and potentially vital departure from an aged practice rooted in racism and tyranny ...
In addition to Alabama, Delaware, and California are also great examples of shown consequences due to prison overcrowding. In February 2017, a group of inmates from the James T. Vaughn correctional center in Delaware were involved in the hostage of four correctional officers. [2]
Elmore is the site of three Alabama state prisons: Staton Correctional Facility and Draper Correctional Facility, which are adjacent to one another, and Elmore about a mile to the east. Elmore inmate Johnny Lee Spears was stabbed to death by another prisoner on March 25, 2016, [ 2 ] and another prisoner was stabbed and wounded in April, in July ...
The Justice Department has had enough of Alabama’s famously dangerous prisons. After repeatedly trying to force the state to fix one of the worst correctional systems in the country, the federal ...
Alabama Department of Corrections St. Clair Correctional Facility is an Alabama state men's prison located in Springville , St. Clair County, Alabama . The prison was originally built in 1983, [ 1 ] and has an operating capacity of 1,514 inmates. [ 2 ]