Fines & fees, healthcare, workforce, Alabama, kids, culture. I no longer post here; look for me where the skies are bluer.
Montgomery, AL
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Having already committed $1.2 billion dollars, including hundreds of millions from the state General Fund, to build one new prison, Alabama is now looking for $$ to build another.
Let's chat about budgets & funding for the criminal legal system. Pull up a chair. 1/ #alpolitics
The timeline for constructing a second large men's prison in Alabama remains uncertain as state leaders seek additional funding, with Gov. Kay Ivey committed to the project despite current financial shortfalls.
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When @J_Palombi was first diagnosed with kidney failure, men on Alabama's death row volunteered to donate theirs. He was a brilliant litigator who made a hell of a sourdough loaf and he's probably haunting Alito as we speak. RIP to a real one. dignitymemorial.com/obituari…
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"If Mr. Myers is executed, it will show we are more afraid to reckon w our past, where a Klan sympathizer could represent a Black man on trial for his life & an elected judge could override the will of a jury, than to do the hard but necessary work of reconciliation." #alpolitics
A former juror is calling on Gov. Kay Ivey to grant clemency to Robin “Rocky” Myers, citing his wrongful conviction, ineffective legal representation, and the now-illegal judicial override that sentenced him to death.
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Gov. Kay Ivey has the power to grant Rocky clemency and there is every reason to do so. He has a son and grandchildren who love him and who he loves. His quality of life in prison would be terrible, but it would be a life.
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A former juror is calling on Gov. Kay Ivey to grant clemency to Robin “Rocky” Myers, citing his wrongful conviction, ineffective legal representation, and the now-illegal judicial override that sentenced him to death.
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"Alabama’s public health infrastructure, strained by residents’ perennially poor health and starved by its refusal to expand Medicaid, was no match for the addiction crisis that followed." @leahanelson @oxfordamerican
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ALT Headline: The Only Narcan Vending Machine in Alabama Dek: How Walker County is confronting the next phase of the opioid crisis. Tagline: Leah Nelson for Oxford American A logo in the bottom right reads “Longreads Editor’s Pick”
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I visited with @_ryancagle the day after election day for a very specific reason: I wanted to spend that awful day w someone who rejects cynicism & chooses to love & pour into his neighbors. It worked as an antidote to my own despair. Via @oxfordamerican #harmreduction
“This is, to me, a way we practice resurrection in a very literal, material way,” he said of his ministry. “It’s a way to love our neighbor, because our community is literally on fire with this crisis.” Fascinating & riveting #MustRead by @leahanelson.
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“This is, to me, a way we practice resurrection in a very literal, material way,” he said of his ministry. “It’s a way to love our neighbor, because our community is literally on fire with this crisis.” Fascinating & riveting #MustRead by @leahanelson.
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In Parrish, Alabama, a Narcan vending machine tells a bigger story.
For our latest web feature, @leahanelson examines the opioid crisis through the eyes of a harm reduction activist, case manager, and truck stop workers.
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The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama: How Walker County is confronting the next phase of the opioid crisis
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Grateful for the work @leahanelson did in making this piece happen.
The Only Narcan Vending Machine In Alabama: How Walker County is confronting the next phase of the opioid crisis
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So thankful for the work Leah put into covering our harm reduction efforts.
Y'all liked this post so much that I turned it into a full article on the extraordinary @_ryancagle and his Narcan vending machine. New from me today, via @oxfordamerican -- please click through, read, and share widely. #harmreduction
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Y'all liked this post so much that I turned it into a full article on the extraordinary @_ryancagle and his Narcan vending machine. New from me today, via @oxfordamerican -- please click through, read, and share widely. #harmreduction
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In a postage stamp of a town at the southernmost tip of Appalachia, a minister/self-described anarcho-communist operates Alabama’s only (for now) Narcan vending machine. And that is also what Alabama is like.
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I’m going to try to take a break from this site for a while, maybe forever. I’m over on 🧵 w the same username and I’ll be delighted to see you over there. Stop by and say hi, please.
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IDK the results tonight yet but I just plead with everyone: PLEASE don't say racist stuff about any group that didn't vote the way you wanted them to.
Just saw a Democratic political strategist blame the fact that black voters in Wisconsin are breaking for Trump on illiteracy. If Trump does end up getting anything close to the share of black voters that polls predicted, libs about to get real racist real quick. Ditto for Arabs.
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