This Week in Montgomery: Alabamians to Vote on Right-to-Work Amendment

| March 18, 2016 

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Thursday the Alabama Senate passed legislation designed to enshrine Alabama’s position as a “right-to-work” state in its constitution. Now, Alabama voters will vote on the amendment in November. We hear more from Don Dailey, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal. Also this week, a bill allowing Alabama to borrow $800 million to build four new prisons moved forward, passing a Senate Committee less than a week after two violent uprisings at Holman Correctional Facility in south Alabama. Dailey told WBHM’s Rachel Lindley about how the recent prison violence moved legislators.

 

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