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Habitual Felony Offender Act: Alabama law produces long prison sentences for questionable prior convictions

April 09, 2021

Will Tucker

Features and Stories

Freedom Denied: Mother whose childhood was stolen by abuse raises her children from prison after 20 years without parole

February 26, 2021

Kathryn Casteel

Features and Stories

Freedom Denied: A father faces a parole denial, COVID-19 and remorse for a crime

January 29, 2021

Will Tucker

Features and Stories

Freedom Denied: Minor parole violations keep Alabama man tangled in state’s prison system

December 22, 2020

Kathryn Casteel

Southern Poverty Law Center v. Ron Abernathy

Economic Justice

Active Case

Date Filed

November 23, 2020

After the sheriff of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, failed to release public records about COVID-19 within the county jail, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit against the sheriff for violating the Alabama Open Records Act.

The lawsuit was filed four months after the...

Features and Stories

Freedom Denied: Alabama parole board keeps beloved community member imprisoned for crime few think she committed

November 20, 2020

Will Tucker

Features and Stories

Mass Parole Denials Amid Pandemic: Despite a dozen deaths, Ala. fails to release older, at-risk people from prison

September 21, 2020

Will Tucker and Kathryn Casteel

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DOJ Report Highlights Desperately Needed Reforms in Ala. Prisons

July 31, 2020

Ebony Howard

Report details shocking violence by corrections officers, systemic failures

Features and Stories

Hundreds of people denied parole in Alabama as pandemic worsened

July 20, 2020

Will Tucker

White people more than twice as likely as Black counterparts to be granted parole in June

Features and Stories

Fight to Vote: COVID-19 threatens activist’s opportunity to vote

June 25, 2020

Kathryn Casteel

Resources

Habitual Felony Offender Act: Alabama law produces long prison sentences for questionable prior convictions

Freedom Denied: Mother whose childhood was stolen by abuse raises her children from prison after 20 years without parole

Freedom Denied: A father faces a parole denial, COVID-19 and remorse for a crime

Freedom Denied: Minor parole violations keep Alabama man tangled in state’s prison system

Southern Poverty Law Center v. Ron Abernathy

Date Filed

Freedom Denied: Alabama parole board keeps beloved community member imprisoned for crime few think she committed

Mass Parole Denials Amid Pandemic: Despite a dozen deaths, Ala. fails to release older, at-risk people from prison

DOJ Report Highlights Desperately Needed Reforms in Ala. Prisons

Hundreds of people denied parole in Alabama as pandemic worsened

Fight to Vote: COVID-19 threatens activist’s opportunity to vote

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