The Daily Yonder Alabama’s Solution to Its Prison Problem Is More Prisons Building shiny new cages is not going to resolve a Department of Justice lawsuit against the state s penal system, says an opponent of proposed privately-built prisons.
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The photo shows a sign that reads, HELP, in the window of an inmate cell at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)
In September of 2019, Janice Wisener came across two trucks and an SUV sitting in the driveway of her property outside of the small city of Tallassee in Elmore County, Alabama.
“I wondered who they were because they were sitting in my driveway, but when I asked them who they were they couldn’t say,” she said. When she asked them what they needed, they responded only that they weren’t there for her property, but for the property next door.
As part of the NFL’s Inspire Change social justice initiative, the league today announced renewals of nine national grant partners that total $2.5 million.
Since 2017, the NFL has provided more than $160 million to 33 national grant partners and hundreds of grassroots organizations across the country. This includes more than 1,450 grants provided by the NFL Foundation to current NFL players and Legends for nonprofits of their choice.
The nine renewed grants were recently approved by the Social Justice Working Group, comprised of 10 players and team owners. Over the last four years, grants have been awarded to nonprofit organizations that focus on the four Inspire Change pillars: education, economic advancement, police-community relations, and criminal justice reform. The specific impact these nine grant partners have made in communities range from fighting to end cash bail and pre-trial detention, to addressing “three-strikes” laws, as well as financial empowerment servic
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A Montgomery legal nonprofit will receive a second year of grant funding from the NFL for their work addressing criminal justice reform in Alabama.
Alabama Appleseed is one of nine organizations to receive a portion of $2.5 million in grant funds through the NFL s Inspire Change initiative. A committee of players and team owners voted to renew Appleseed s grant, according to an NFL release.
“This grant builds on an energy for change in Alabama and will allow Alabama Appleseed to do what we do best provide evidence-based research, tell stories from impacted communities, and build coalitions for legislative reforms so desperately needed to create justice and equity, said Carla Crowder, executive director for Alabama Appleseed.
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Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice this week released a comprehensive new report examining Alabamaâs Habitual Felony Offender Act, Condemned:  Hundreds of Men Are Sentenced to Die in Prison for Crimes with No Physical Injury. They Haven’t Given Up on Life. Why Has Alabama Given Up on Them?
The report is a call to action as Alabama lawmakers consider desperately needed sentencing reforms to address unconstitutional conditions in Alabamaâs menâs prisons. Condemned shares the stories of men in their 50s, 60s and 70s who are sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. They fill prison honor dorms, serving as mentors, role models, and chapel workers despite being condemned to die in prison for non-homicide offenses committed decades ago.