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Alabama plans $500 million bond issue to support prison construction
An Alabama Senate committee today delayed action on a bill that would authorize $500 million in bonds to help pay for a new 4,000-bed men’s prison in Escambia County. But Sen. Greg Albritton ...
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Alabama prison inmate dies after weeks of hospitalization
An Alabama state prison inmate died Sunday, several weeks after he was hospitalized with significant health issues. Joseph Curtis Allen, a 50-year-old William Donaldson Correctional Facility ...
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From The Creator Of ‘The Jinx’ Comes Shocking Expose Of Alabama Prison Conditions: “The System Is Really In Free Fall” – Sundance
“He looked like an alien.” The “they” she referred to are prison guards at the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Jefferson County, AL. Guards claimed Davis came at them with ...
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Alabama convict criticizes Democrat politician in last words before being executed for killing woman
A man convicted of raping and murdering an Alabama woman seemed to criticize Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in his final words before being put to death by nitrogen gas, reports say. Demetrius ...
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Alabama executes man with nitrogen gas for 1991 murder and rape
Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first ...
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Man Sentenced to 44 Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Qaeda Ties
Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch ... on Tuesday to 44 years in prison. Prosecutors said that the ...
Detroit News6d
Alabama puts Detroit man to death for 1991 murder
Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. “First of all I want to ...
The New York Times6d
U.S. Is Holding Migrants in Cells That Once Held Al Qaeda Suspects
The Trump administration said the 10 men who were sent to a prison on the base at Guantánamo ... that has housed men accused of being members of Al Qaeda, U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday.
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‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: Andrew Jarecki’s Powerful Exposé of a Prison System Where Sanctified Lawlessness Is the Law
“The Alabama Solution” is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki (“Capturing the Friedmans,” “The ...
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With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons
PARK CITY, Utah — Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.
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Alabama puts man to death for a 1991 murder in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas
Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41. It was the first execution in Alabama ...