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Alabama has relatively long mandatory sentencing laws compared to most other states, resulting in a rising prison population stemming from longer prison sentences. It operates the nation's most crowded prison system. In 2015 it housed more than 24,000 inmates in a system designed for 13,318. [3]
1002. Opened. December 1969. Managed by. Alabama Department of Corrections. Warden. Terry Raybon. William C. Holman Correctional Facility is an Alabama Department of Corrections prison located in Atmore, Alabama. [ 1] The facility is along Alabama State Highway 21, 9 miles (14 km) north of Atmore in southern Alabama.
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“The new prison facilities being built in Alabama are critically important to public safety, to our criminal justice system and to Alabama as a whole,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement.
February 13, 2023 at 7:41 PM. WALKER COUNTY, Ala. ( WIAT) – The mother of Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, a Walker County, Alabama man who died in police custody in January, has filed a federal ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 75 people (74 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
The Alabama prison system has been under heightened federal scrutiny for several years. A federal judge ruled in 2017 that mental health care of state inmates is “horrendously inadequate."
Known as the "angel of the prisons", Tutwiler pushed for many reforms of the Alabama penal system. In a letter sent from Julia Tutwiler in Dothan, Alabama to Frank S. White in Birmingham, Alabama, Tutwiler pushed for key issues such as the end to convict leasing, the re-establishment of night school education, and the separation of minor offenders and hardened criminals. [3]