Alabama trying to use COVID relief funds for new prisons
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Alabama trying to use COVID relief funds for new prisons
MONTGOMERY, ALA. - Facing a Justice Department lawsuit over Alabama's notoriously violent prisons, state lawmakers on Monday began a special session on a $1.3 billion construction plan that would use federal pandemic relief funds to pay part of the cost o...