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.
Business owners relieved as Gov. Ivey announces end to extra unemployment benefits
Pandemic related unemployment benefits will soon in end in Alabama By Caroline Klapp | May 10, 2021 at 9:44 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 9:42 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A new state decision will affect some 80,000 people on unemployment.
Driving around north Alabama, now hiring signs aren’t hard to find, which is one of the reasons Governor Ivey announced she’s putting a stop to the $300 a week in additional unemployment.
The pandemic unemployment programs mean Alabamians have been getting up to $575 a week in unemployment for up to 54 weeks due to the pandemic, as opposed to standard unemployment benefits capping out at $275 a week for only 14 weeks.
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A bill that would lift a nearly three-decade ban on yoga in public schools is a step closer to Gov. Kay Ivey s desk.
The Alabama Senate voted 23-7 late Thursday for a bill from Rep. Jeremy Gray, D-Opelika, would allow public schools to offer yoga as an elective course. The bill was amended to put a ban on hypnotic states and meditation in courses, and to require notification of parents about their children enrolling in yoga courses that yoga is associated with Hinduism.
In the Montgomery County delegation, Sen. Kirk Hatcher, D-Montgomery, voted for the bill. Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Pike Road, voted against it.
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