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Do the crime, do the time
Unpacking indifference to incarceration's harms
Nov 20 • 
Beth Shelburne
A fire for justice
A father's grief fuels fight for accountability & change
Oct 22 • 
Beth Shelburne
The Alabama Solution
A reckoning on prison horrors through new documentary film
Oct 12 • 
Beth Shelburne
It's corruption, y'all!
The elephant in the room at Alabama's prison oversight meeting
Jul 27 • 
Beth Shelburne
Following Alabama's Blood Money
Prison lawsuits, payouts, and how lawyers for abusive officers hit pay dirt.
May 31 • 
Beth Shelburne
Alabama prisons are America
Violating human rights is nothing new
May 7 • 
Beth Shelburne
At My Alabama Prison, One Man Is Doing Time With His Grandson
A guest writer asks "Why can’t older people, who have vanishingly low recidivism rates, be released from prison?"
Apr 2
The absurdity of Gov. Kay Ivey
Alabama's monument to mass incarceration will bear her name.
Nov 20, 2024 • 
Beth Shelburne
When grief becomes rage
Sandy Ray's fight for accountability in her son's prison beating death
Oct 10, 2024 • 
Beth Shelburne
Defending brutality
How Alabama spends millions fighting prison accountability
Apr 5, 2024 • 
Beth Shelburne
Jobless in prison work release
Packed prisons & scant paroles means high unemployment
Mar 23, 2024 • 
Beth Shelburne
A mother's nightmare
Pam Moser shares the sad story of her son's death in prison
Feb 28, 2024 • 
Beth Shelburne
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