The Alabama prison system is raising salaries for correctional officers — increasing starting pay to more than $50,000 annually — in an effort to lure workers and address an ongoing staff shortage.
An internal review of Alabama’s execution procedures is complete and the state will resume lethal injections, Gov. Kay Ivey announced Friday.
The head of Alabama’s prison system says staffing remains “the number one issue” and is looking to a combination of outsourcing and pay and benefit changes to increase the number of officers.
The prison system has lost more than 500 security staff employees over the last 18 months, according to court filings.
Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system more time to carry out executions.
On Monday, Gov. Kay Ivey announced new rules for prison “good time” incentives that allow some inmates to shorten their prison stays based on their behavior.
The Alabama Department of Corrections says the inmate who walked off a job site in Montgomery has been caught.
The Alabama Department of Corrections, for the second time this year, has picked a Tennessee-based company to provide health care services at its 27 facilities.
Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday said she wants to give the state additional time to carry out an execution after a series of failed lethal injections.
Alabama won’t seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line.
