What’s happened, what’s next in Alabama’s plan for new prisons?
Updated May 12, 2021;
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A plan in the works for more than two years for Alabama to lease three new men’s prisons that would be financed, built, and owned by private developers is in doubt because financial backers are dropping out.
The next step for Gov. Kay Ivey and the Legislature is not clear. But the governor says she will continue the push for new prisons. Legislative leaders agree they are needed.
Ivey and the Alabama Department of Corrections have promoted the lease project as the way to replace many of Alabama’s aging, overcrowded, and understaffed prisons and reverse decades of neglect.