More than 1,100 people age 65 or older are locked away in Alabama prisons, putting a group already highly susceptible to the deadly COVID-19 virus at an even greater risk, according to an SPLC analysis of the state’s prison system.
Alabama resident Lee Carroll Brooker garnered national attention in 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the marijuana trafficking case that put Brooker, in his 70s at the time, in prison for life.
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When Deleria Huff’s mother began to grow old, she would sometimes fall in the hallway of her three-bedroom family home in Mobile, Alabama. Deleria would be there to pick her up.
In late 2016, Janine Tarver was up for parole for the third time. She’d already served over 16 years of a 20-year sentence, but she wasn’t optimistic about her chances of release.
Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called Last Day on Earth: Survival – about staying alive on a zombie-infested planet – when a real-life gunshot rang out.
When Shanna Rainey was a mother to two young children, she began using methamphetamine.
Ashley Buford could not hold back the tears when she saw her brother behind a chain-link fence with barbed wire on top.
