AL Political Reporter: “Alabama Governor Kay Ivey addressed the Montgomery chapter of the Kiwanis Club about the strong state of the Alabama economy, the need to address prison infrastructure, road upgrades, urging Alabamians to get the COVID-19 vaccine and opposing vaccines mandates by the Biden administration.
Ivey said that recently she has been meeting with members of the Legislature on legislation that is being drafted to address Alabama’s “longstanding and urgent prison issues.”
“We are already under several court orders and the Department of Justice is getting close to intervening” into the state’s prisons, Ivey warned. “The main issue is the simple fact that our prison infrastructure is growing worse day by day and is not capable of rehabilitating prisoners.”
Ivey said that this is not the fault of any one administration, but is due to “decades upon decades of neglect.””