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Alabama Appleseed is working to achieve justice for all Alabamians. Explore our new advocacy campaigns and how you can get involved. We work hard to improve the lives of ordinary Alabamians and the communities they live in by advocating for systemic reforms that lift people out of poverty and empower community leaders.

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Let’s build a future we are proud of. Join us at Justice and the Next 250 in Alabama.
Sep 28, 2026 · original
Let’s build a future we are proud of in Alabama. Alabama Appleseed is thrilled to host Justice and the Next 250 In Alabama , a free event launching conversations about the future of criminal justice and public safety in Alabama . Appleseed is hosting this event in partnership with Sidewalk Film and The Just Trust, as part of their Justice and the Next 250 campaign. This campaign asks us to consider how we build a future that works better for everyone, to look forward with hope and innovation. To that end, Appleseed has secured four Alabama innovators in criminal justice to be part of the conversation: Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett, who has overseen a historic decline in crime in Birmingham Bessemer District Attorney Lynneice Washington, who created the state’s first Conviction Integrity Unit Circuit Judge Brooke Reid, a pioneering judge overseeing Mental Health Court in Montgom
Two men stabbed at Holman prison after ADOC moved assailant with decade-long history of violence and sexual assault out of segregation
Sep 13, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed researcher The man the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) believes was responsible for the kidnapping, torture, rape and death of 22-year-old Daniel Williams inside Staton Correctional Facility in 2023 stabbed two other men this week at Holman Correctional Facility. Lamont Wilson stabbed two men at Holman on Wednesday, according to multiple people who told Appleseed about the incident. One victim suffered such serious injuries and was evacuated from the prison by helicopter. ADOC has not responded to Appleseed’s questions about the attack. “When is something going to be done with him, or is this going to be swept under the rug like my son?,” asked Mr. Williams’s father, Terry Williams, speaking to Appleseed on Friday. He’d shared a post about the Holman prison stabbing to his Facebook page on Thursday. “I can’t tell you how broken-hearted, mad and fru
Appleseed welcomes new program assistant Kamora Porter
Sep 10, 2026 · original
By Kamora Porter, Appleseed Program Assistant My name is Kamora Porter, and I am honored to be joining Alabama Appleseed as the Program Assistant for Parole and Reentry. As a recent graduate of Emory University, where I earned two degrees in Political Science & African American Studies, I am elated to begin my professional journey with an organization that is deeply committed to social justice and creating meaningful change in Alabama. I am elated to be working for an organization like Appleseed that believes in the power of second chances! I have always been passionate about advocacy and have spent much of my academic and personal life thinking of the best ways to be an advocate for others. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city rooted in a rich history of advocacy and overcoming, shaped and molded my understanding of the importance of this work. From a young age, I could not help bu
New motion in DOJ case documents 7 years of complacency and denial following state leaders’ promises to address human rights crisis in Alabama prisons
Sep 3, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter and Carla Crowder Seven years after the United States Department of Justice first documented unconstitutional levels of violence, sexual assault, and excessive force by guards fueled by extreme mismanagement, dysfunction and corruption across Alabama’s prison system for men, a new 260-page motion from the federal government reinforces what prisoners and their families have consistently claimed since then: Alabama’s prisons remain catastrophically dangerous and ADOC leadership has failed to take basic measures to address the human rights crisis festering in the state’s largest law enforcement agency. The DOJ’s motion for summary judgment builds upon the complaints filed in 2020 and 2021 with page after page of recent episodes of institutional violence and abuse along with the state’s ineptitude at curtailing it. “It is not uncommon for prisoners to report being held ho
The good news about crime that you probably won’t hear about in election ads
Aug 28, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher In Alabama last year, both violent and property crime fell by a combined 7.5 percent, following a consistent trend of decreasing crime rates across the U.S., according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations crime data analyzed by Appleseed. Despite frequent public perception that crime is surging, all four violent crimes, defined by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program as rape, robbery, aggravated assault and homicide, fell in Alabama and across the country last year. In 2025 violent crimes in Alabama fell by 6.5 percent from 2024, and property crimes (larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, burglary and arson) fell even further, by 7.8 percent. Violent crime has not been this low nationwide since 1968, and property crime rates are lower than they have been since pre-1960s, according to an analysis of FBI data by Jeff Asher, a nationally recogn
Total tax dollars for William Lunsford and the Butler Snow firm now at $94 million
Aug 15, 2026 · original
The Alabama Department of Corrections’ dysfunction continues to outdo itself– over 1,600 people have died in its custody since the Department of Justice released its damning report on conditions in 2019, violence and corruption remain rampant all the way up to prison facility administrators, and taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars to pay for the fallout. In the face of such dysfunction, private Alabama attorney William “Bill” Lunsford is set to receive over $38 million more to defend the state’s indefensible prisons. As Appleseed has continued to research payments to Lunsford, we keep finding new piles of money dating back to 2016. The current total is $56.4 million paid so far, and another $38 million in pending contracts requested by the Alabama Attorney General’s Office for a new grand total of $94.4 million! Lunsford and his firm have been hired to defend the Alabama De
Other states settle cases, Alabama writes big checks. New contracts will bring total ADOC legal spending for attorney William Lunsford to $86 million
Aug 9, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher The private Alabama attorney William “Bill” Lunsford, individually and in his role as an appointed state Deputy Attorney General, has been paid $48.8 million defending the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) as of Aug. 5, and millions more of our tax dollars are headed his way. Huntsville Attorney William Lunsford That staggering number, taxpayer funds paid to defend the state’s deadly, chaotic prisons, will skyrocket to $86.8 million if the latest contract increase request of $38 million by ADOC goes through as expected. Most of the new money is for an anticipated trial in the slow-moving DOJ case. Appleseed confirmed these totals through state records. It’s hard to imagine Alabama could prevail in a trial where the U.S. Department of Justice is expected to lay out a case that federal attorneys have been building since 2019, when the DOJ fi
National Advocacy Group FAMM Offering Content on Alabama Prison Tablets
Jun 18, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher I n the coming weeks incarcerated people in Alabama will be able to access valuable information on their electronic tablets from a national nonprofit that advocates for sentencing and prison reform. FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) announced this week that the organization’s information will soon be available and free to use on Edovo tablets, which are in use in prisons across Alabama and in many other states. “We look forward to providing a variety of educational and motivational materials to institutions nationwide. Our offerings will range from extensive information about clemency, compassionate release, and sentencing reform to training on how to advocate from behind bars,” Kelly Haynes, Engagement Programs Associate for FAMM, told Appleseed. Among the information FAMM will make available on those tablets for incarcerated people are
1000 Years Overcome! Celebrating a Milestone in Appleseed’s Legal and Reentry Work
Jun 12, 2026 · original
A few years ago, Appleseed confronted an astonishing truth within Alabama state prisons: people sentenced to life without parole, individuals with no chance of using good behavior to catch a break and regain their freedom, served as leaders, mentors, barbers, cooks, literally sang in the chapel choir at Alabama’s maximum security prisons. John Coleman, 92, Appleseed’s legal client has been free for more than 3 years. Supporters gathered for brunch June 9 to meet and celebrate some of the individuals freed through Appleseed’s legal work. Photos by Bernard Troncale Carl Green, 65, has taken numerous classes and is hoping to find employment, following 36 years in prison For hundreds of these incarcerated people, their convictions involved no physical harm to anyone. They were sentenced under Alabama’s outdated and draconian Habitual Felony Offender Act, and would not face such extreme sente
Fallout from the State’s Unfortunate Contract with Prison Healthcare Provider YesCare Continues as Workers Go Unpaid and State Dollars Go Missing
May 20, 2026 · original
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher Medical workers inside Alabama prisons who were employed by the embattled company YesCare haven’t received their last paychecks, and the Alabama Department of Corrections is predicting “protracted litigation,” over millions of taxpayer dollars at issue following the sudden termination of the billion-dollar contract. The hardship falling upon those prison health care workers comes despite the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) having paid YesCare a final payment of $11 million in April with a “verbal agreement” that the money would be used to pay employee payrolls. That didn’t happen, leaving workers having to make difficult financial decisions for themselves and their families. At Bullock Correctional Facility, nurses on all three shifts went on strike Tuesday, and although some returned to work Wednesday, one worker who did not return to t

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