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Question of the Day By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press - Thursday, April 1, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama prison system, which ranks sixth in the country for COVID-19 deaths, announced Thursday that it will begin vaccinating inmates after previously only making vaccine available to prison officers and staff.
The Alabama Department of Corrections announced that on April 12 it will begin vaccinating inmates who want to receive the vaccine. The prison system estimated that it will initially have 6,000 – 7,000 doses available to begin inoculating inmates. There are more than 17,000 inmates in state prisons.
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Alabama prison plan went from $900 million to $3.7 billion. How? That’s still secret.
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Posted Feb 03, 2021
Do you see those two stacks of paper Gov. Kay Ivey is signing? Nobody outside the governor s office and the contractors knows what s in them, not even Alabama lawmakers.
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The projected costs of new prisons in Alabama have changed somewhat in a relatively short time.
Actually, nix that
At the time, way back in 2019, that seemed like a lot of money, especially since the state wouldn’t be buying the new prisons, but leasing them from private companies.
From there, though, the plan evolved. At some point, a whole prison went missing. The women’s prison got excluded from the deal, which was weird since the barbaric conditions at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women were what supposedly spurred the state into action on this plan in the first place.