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  2. Billion-dollar supersize prisons are slated to be built ...

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    The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority late last month approved a final price of $1.08 billion for the 4,000-bed prison now under construction in Elmore County.

  3. Prison overcrowding in the United States - Wikipedia

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    One solution the state of Alabama used to alleviate its prison overcrowding issues was the use of leased beds in 2008. [14] Inmates were housed inside of leased facilities that had a strict capacity requirement under federal court order, which helped to reduce overcrowding within the main correctional facilities. [ 14 ]

  4. Alabama to shutter aging, dilapidated prison - AOL

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    The main building of Holman Correctional Facility, a close-security prison in Atmore, will be closed and 617 inmates will be sent to other state prisons, Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn ...

  5. Jail overcrowding crisis could see prisoners freed early ...

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    The prisons watchdog warned it was ‘inevitable’ some of the hundreds released would reoffend. Jail overcrowding crisis could see prisoners freed early staying in hotels Skip to main content

  6. Holman Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    On Friday August 29, 1975, two U.S. federal district court judges, William Brevard Hand and Frank M. Johnson Jr., ordered Alabama authorities to stop sending any more prisoners to Holman, Fountain Correctional Facility, Draper Correctional Facility, and the Medical and Diagnostic Center, due to overcrowding; the four prisons, designed to hold ...

  7. ‘A humanitarian crisis’: Why Alabama could lose control of ...

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    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 ...

  8. With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows ...

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    Filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman became interested in Alabama prisons in 2019. Jarecki, the filmmaker behind “The Jinx” and “Capturing the Friedmans,” and Kaufman first gained access to the restricted grounds through a visit with a chaplain during a revival meeting held in the prison yards. There men pulled them aside and ...

  9. St. Clair Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    The Free Alabama Movement, founded by Melvin Ray, an inmate in St. Clair, led at least two nonviolent prison strikes in 2014. [5]The strike in April explained its motives as an "effort to improve education programs and end overcrowding, harsh sentencing," and to end the 'free labor system'.