We have overcrowded prisons and the Feds are threatening the state to add more space or release prisoners.
Also, as I understand it, some of the prisons are run down and need to be replaced.
No prison is over crowed or run down. There has to be a good swamp somewhere in Alabama to handle overflow. If not, hire Sheriff Joe in AZ to take them.
“We have overcrowded prisons and the Feds are threatening the state to add more space or release prisoners.
Also, as I understand it, some of the prisons are run down and need to be replaced.”
This is true.
In a plan that fell through, the state was going to aquire (lease) hundreds of acres of farm land outside of Tallassee to build one of these prisons when the state already owns enough land around the existing Draper Correctional Facility to build the new super sized prison.