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Today, the Department of Justice released its latest report regarding the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). This report detailed the pattern, practice, and culture of excessive use of force amongst corrections officers and the state’s role in allowing this brutality to continue unchecked.
On Friday, July 17, 2020, Alabama’s Secretary of State announced that expanded absentee voting guidelines would continue through the November 3, 2020, elections. The announcement is a massive win in the fight for accessible voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Department of Corrections announced on Monday, July 13, that two more incarcerated people have died from COVID-19.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Department of Corrections announced on Tuesday that the tenth person in ADOC custody has died after testing positive for COVID-19.
Dillon Nettles, Policy Analyst, ACLU of Alabama said:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of Alabama have joined a lawsuit initially filed on May 1, 2020, by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), Southern Poverty Law Center, and Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program seeking to ensure that no eligible Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- This week, as protests over police killings of Black people have continued in the wake of George Floyd’s and Breonna Taylor’s deaths, we have seen extensive and excessive use of force from police in engaging with these protesters, both here in Alabama and across the country.