What’s Your Experience with Alabama’s Prison System?

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What’s Your Experience With Alabama’s Prison System?

Alabama Media Group, which includes

AL.com, The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times

and Press-Register in Mobile, and WBHM, an NPR

News station, are collaborating on a closer examination of the state’s

prison problems

and who is being held accountable.

Your participation will help guide and inform our reporting.

We invite you to share your story and help to shine a light on what’s happening inside.

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