Tag: incarceration
Prison Fellowship’s Message of Hope Resonates Inside an Alabama Correctional Facility
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
After going through security and entering prison gates, visitors to the William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama,...
“When you hit rock bottom, you have to look up.”
-Joe Bennett, released after serving almost 24 years on a life sentence, during Alabama Appleseed luncheon, which advocates for those incarcerated people; The Birmingham...
Rep. Sewell Secures $2 Million in Federal Funds for The Lovelady...
By Nicole S. Daniel
The Birmingham Times
Brenda Lovelady Spahn, founder/executive director of The Lovelady Center in Birmingham, remembers when staff had to “glue together the...
Appleseed Law Center’s Report Outlines Serious Need For Sentencing Reform
alabamaappleseed.org
Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice this week released a comprehensive new report examining Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act, Condemned: Hundreds of Men Are Sentenced...
Area’s top law enforcement officials address killings of black males
By Nathan Turner Jr.
For The Birmingham Times
With a “disproportionate” number of African American boys and men killed and incarcerated in Jefferson County and surrounding...
