Search Results

Your search returned 0 categories and 25 Links.

  • Capital Punishment, 2021 - Statistical Tables Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2023“Five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi) and the BOP executed a total of 11 prisoners in 2021. Among the prisoners executed, 10 were male and 1 was female.”
  • (New) Taken for a Ride How Excessive Ticketing Propels Alabama Drivers Into a Cycle of Debt, Incarceration, and Poverty Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, July, 2023“The municipal court judge in Jacksonville won't issue a warrant of arrest until a person fails to appear in court three times for a given charge...In Anniston, however, a person can be arrested after missing a single court date.”
  • (New) Afterward Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, April, 2023“Fewer than half [of respondents] felt better after the person who killed their loved one was incarcerated. Fewer than half felt safer.”
  • (New) Condemned: The habitual felony offender act in Alabama Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, March, 2023“At a minimum, Alabama should provide a mechanism for judges to review the sentences of people serving life without parole under the Habitual Federal Offender Act.”
  • Unsustainable: Alabama's Increasing Trend of Keeping the Elderly Behind Bars Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, November, 2022“The average age of the Alabama prison population has a positive linear relationship (r=.88) with [medical spending.]”
  • (New) A Bitter Pill Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, September, 2022“While it's rare for people whose only offense is simple possession to land in prison, it is far from unheard of...Convictions for these collateral offenses can be what...sends them to prison for crimes that are driven by addiction, not malice.”
  • New prisons for old men? Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, July, 2021“The number of young people (age 15 to 30) in Alabama prisons has been cut in half over the last 15 years. Meanwhile, the number of people over age 50 has doubled. People over 50 are the least likely to re-offend and the most expensive to incarcerate...”
  • report thumbnail Parole boards approved fewer releases in 2020 than in 2019, despite the raging pandemic Prison Policy Initiative, February, 2021“In over half of the states we studied--Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina - between 2019 and 2020, there was either no change or a decrease in parole grant rates.”
  • (New) Death Traps An examination of the routine, violent deaths of people in the custody of the State of Alabama Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, November, 2020“2020 is on pace to be one of the most deadly years on record in Alabama prisons, with deaths by homicide between January and July at 10 compared to seven for the same time period in 2019.”
  • (New) When You Are a Hammer, Every Problem Looks Like a Nail: Why Building New Prisons Will Do Nothing To Solve Old Problems in Alabama Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, May, 2020“Alabama has the distinction of being the only state in the country to violate CRIPA, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, throughout its entire prison system.”
  • Barred from working: A Nationwide Study of Occupational Licensing Barriers for Ex-Offenders Institute for Justice, May, 2020“Six states--Alabama, Alaska, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont--were tied for last, receiving a zero on a 100-point scale for their lack of protections for felons seeking licenses.”
  • In Trouble: How the Promise of Diversion Clashes With the Reality of Poverty, Addiction, and Structural Racism in Alabama's Justice Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, February, 2020“Fifty-five percent of them made less than $14,999 per year, yet the median amount they reported paying for diversion was $1,600 -- more than ten percent of their total income.”
  • Stalled: Alabama's Destructive Practice of Suspending Driver's Licenses Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, February, 2020“A 2018 survey of Alabamians whose licenses were suspended due to unpaid tickets found 89% had to choose between basic needs like food, utilities, or medicine and paying what they owed and 64% were jailed in connection with unpaid traffic debt.”
  • (New) United States Department of Justice Investigation of Alabama's State Prisons for Men Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, October, 2019“A warden at Holman, a maximum-security prison, informed the DOJ that on any given day there are "probably 11" security staff per shift for the entire complex of 800 prisoners.”
  • Opportunity Costs: Unequal Justice in Alabama's Community Corrections Programs Southern Poverty Law Center, August, 2019“The SPLC's eight-month investigation of community corrections programs in Alabama reveals serious flaws in a "user-funded justice" system that, in many locales, seems to be focused more on raising money than on rehabilitation or public safety.”
  • Under Pressure: How fines and fees hurt people, undermine public safety, and drive Alabama's racial wealth divide Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, October, 2018(83% of people surveyed gave up necessities like rent, food, medical bills, car payments, and child support, in order to pay down their court debt.)
  • Defendant Remorse, Need for Affect, and Juror Sentencing Decisions Emily Corwin, Louisiana State Univeristy; Professor Robert Cramer, Sam Houston State University; Desiree Griffin, Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute; Professor Stanley Brodsky, University of Alabama, 2015“Incongruent verbal and nonverbal behavior, as well as mock juror willingness to approach emotional situations (i.e., high need for affect resulted in more lenient sentences for defendants.”
  • Cruel Confinement Abuse, Discrimination and Death Within Alabama's Prisons Southern Poverty Law Center, June, 2014“This extraordinary understaffing has led to a multitude of problems. The vast majority are easily predictable: delays, failures to diagnose and treat problems, failure to follow up with patients, errors and decisions to not treat seriously ill prisoners.”
  • The Burden of Criminal Justice Debt in Alabama: 2014 Participant Self-Report Survey UAB TASC Jefferson County's Community Corrections Program, 2014“The purpose of this study was to evaluate the success of this approach and the impact of these policies in Alabama. With the general knowledge that increased court costs have not produced projected revenue, we sought to understand why.”
  • Defendants Whose Death Sentences Have Been Reduced Because of a Finding of "Mental Retardation" since Atkins v. Virginia Death Penalty Information Center, July, 2012“The authors found that states that significantly deviated from accepted clinical methods for determining intellectual disability, such as Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, had the lowest success rates.”
  • Creating the Roadmap for Reduction Reducing the Number of Women in Prison in Alabama Justice Policy Institute, April, 2011“In the summer of 2009, Corrections and JPI staff recognized the opportunity to expedite the reclassification of currently-incarcerated women using the new classification module and the need to add capacity to identify women who can be safely released.”
  • Challenges to Felony Disenfranchisement Laws Past, Present, and Future Alabama Law Review, May, 2007“[T]he best way to achieve the goal of abolition is to generate press and harness public outrage to bring about legislative change.”
  • The Alabama Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Alabama's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices American Bar Association, June, 2006“...the State of Alabama does not require that an indigent individual charged with or convicted of a capital felony be appointed counsel and provided with resources for experts and investigators at every stage of the proceedings.”
  • Alabama Sentencing Commission 2006 Report Alabama Sentencing Commission, January, 2006“Of Alabama's inmate population, almost 1 out of 3 inmates are sentenced as an habitual offender.”
  • Broken Justice: The Death Penalty in Alabama ACLU, October, 2005“At least 30 current death row prisoners have no lawyer. Alabama's death row occupants are overwhelmingly poor -- 95 percent are indigent -- and minority.”

Search again

More search options

Pages Updated On: 16-Aug-2024 - 15:34:07
Links Engine Powered By: Gossamer Threads Inc.