DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their jobs at private manufacturers supplying goods to ...
As the other men staggered into the storm to flag down help, they wondered: Why would the Alabama Department of Corrections place their lives in Jones’ hands? “They knew he had a propensity to drink,” ...
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than ...
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. DADEVILLE, Ala. — A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed ...