Alabama Sheriff Pockets Excess Jail Food Funds, Buys Beach House, Loses Re-election Bid by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss In June 2018, Sheriff Todd Entrekin withdrew from his re-election campaign in Etowah County, Alabama, conceding to his only opponent, Rainbow City Police Chief Jonathon Horton. Entrekin will serve out …
Alabama DOC Ordered to Remedy Overcrowded, Understaffed Prisons in Mental Health Suit by Kevin W. Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A U.S. District Court has ordered the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to come up with an acceptable solution to address deplorable living conditions in the state’s prison system before …
$32,000 Settlement in Excessive Force Case Involving Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner by A settlement was reached in a civil rights action alleging guards at Alabama’s Madison County Jail (MCJ) used excessive force on a mentally ill prisoner during a cell extraction. Haraesheo Rice, 31, was well known to MCJ staff, …
Alabama Prisoner in Failed Execution Attempt will Not Face Another by David Reutter by David M. Reutter In March 2018, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed not to set another execution date for death row prisoner Doyle Lee Hamm. The settlement resolved a lawsuit that followed a failed attempt …
Violent Incidents Follow Settlement to End Dangerous Conditions at Alabama Prison by Within a year after a settlement was reached between the non-profit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) to address violence at the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville, three prisoners were killed and …
Alabama DOC - Centurylink contract 6/2018 STATE OF ALABAMA Office of Information Technology 64 Nonh Union Stteet, Suite 200 Montgomeiy, AL 361 30 Telephone (334) 242-3800 fln:iil: jim.purcell@oit.alabamagov JOANNE E. HALE, Ph.D. KAY lVEY Acting Soetotaiy Govemor CHERI MARTIN T'>eputy Secrt:Wy June 1, 2017 To: Paul Cooper, VP/GM Centurylink Public …
Ray v. Judicial Corrections Services, AL, Memo, Paying Court Debts, 2018 Case 2:12-cv-02819-RDP Document 709 Filed 10/22/18 Page 1 of 59 FILED 2018 Oct-22 PM 10:36 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION GINA KAY RAY, et al., Individually and on …
Inside the Prison Labor Strike, The KITE, 2018 Working W Working ki to t Extend E t d Democracy D to t All V Volume V l Volume 1, N 1 Number b 3 3 September S S t b 2018 September 2018 INSIDE THE PRISON …
Alabama Pastor and Non-profit Director Fights Capital Murder Charge by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Dothan, Alabama pastor and non-profit director Kenneth Glasgow, 52, has been charged with capital murder in a controversial case where another man with whom he was driving fatally shot a woman who allegedly stole the …
Alabama Prisoners Suffer Nation’s Highest Homicide, Suicide Rates by David Reutter by David Reutter Alabama’s prison murder rate, already the nation’s worst, is on the rise – along with an increase in assaults that do not end in fatalities, as well as prisoner suicides. Prison officials agree that the root …
State Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Gaining Traction by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis On the federal level, hopes for criminal justice reform have fallen victim to partisan bickering in Congress and a lack of substantive interest from the White House. Fortunately, state officials are not waiting around, and state-level reform …
Nevada DOC Cuts Prison Sagebrush Program After Federal Funds Withheld by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Nevada Department of Corrections has cut the Sagebrush in Prisons program, citing overtime costs and lack of staff oversight, after the federal government withheld funding for the program. This means the 300,000 sagebrush …
Vera Institute of Justice--The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Report, 2018 The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration Jacob Kang-Brown, Oliver Hinds, Jasmine Heiss, and Olive Lu June 2018 From The Director The turn of the century marked a new direction for the nation’s prisons and jails: after three decades of …
In the Public Interest - An Examination of Private Financing for Correctional and Immigration Detention Facilities, 2018 An examination of private financing for correctional and immigration detention facilities Report · In the Public Interest · June 2018 While governments have traditionally used municipal bonds to finance the construction of correctional …
Alabama: State Agencies Have Absolute Immunity in a Court of Law or Equity by The Supreme Court of Alabama held that state agencies can never be made a defendant in any court of law or equity. The ruling resulted after the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) filed a petition for …
Prison Officials Acted Under State-Agent Immunity by David Reutter by David Reutter The Supreme Court of Alabama held that prison officials acted under protection of state-agent immunity and that a prisoner did not show any facts exempting either from liability. The court granted mandamus and ordered the trial court to …
Innovative Use of Peanut Butter by Alabama Prisoners by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When prisoners tire of the same fare they are given to eat, day after day, they become creative to make it more palatable. A dozen pre-trial detainees at the Walker County Jail (WCJ) in Alabama, …
Challenge to Three-drug Execution Protocol Revived by Eleventh Circuit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 1, 2017, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals revived civil rights claims brought by four Alabama death row prisoners. Their lawsuits challenged the state’s current three-drug execution protocol, arguing that the use …
