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Pretty exciting day. I enjoyed this team, and going back to my reporting roots.
Awards are cool and all, but nothing compares to the hearing people say they got their lives back.
That will stick forever.
Congrats everyone.
John Archibald
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John Archibald
@JohnArchibald
Columnist. PulitzerX2. My kid has one too. Read “Shaking the Gates of Hell.” @Niemanfdn Nation. Subscribe to the newsletter: link.al.com/join/6fp
- She’s 71. She’s dying. She’s in a wheelchair. She has a room waiting in a nursing home. The DOC is ok with her release. She’s been a model prisoner. Oh, and she’s costing the state a ton of money in prison. Alabama parole board: Parole denied.
- Seems like a lot of Alabamans who railed that trans people would imperil little girls in bathrooms everywhere don't give a damn about little girls who were actually assaulted.
- I really hope you guys will read this. I’ve been working on it a while. It really shows – in a sort of shocking microscopic way -- what inevitably happens when you incentivize criminalization of people for profit. (1/12)
- Got a S-ton of people telling me I'm trying to make a "racial issue" of black people getting sick and dying at higher rates than white. Umm. That's because it is a racial issue, and it is long past time to talk about it, loud and out in the open.
- This, I am told, just showed up on the hospital lawn in Atmore. Damn right. #heroeswearscrubs (and a bunch of other uniforms)
- Replying to @JohnArchibaldBrookside is a town of 1,253 north of Birmingham. In 2020 it made 2,080 arrests – misdemeanor, felony and custodial. That’s a 1,109% increase from 2018. That’s 4.4 arrests for every household.🤪
- Can I just remind y’all that Tommy Tuberville isn’t from Alabama, wasn’t living in Alabama when he decided to run, and only lived here when he was being paid millions to coach football players. Yet here we are.For 248 years, the U.S. Marine Corps' courage and sacrifice has been an inspiration to our country and allies. But this proud legacy is being tarnished by a domestic enemy: @SenTuberville
00:00 - Doug Jones won. Here's the column: Alabama sent a message ... to women s.al.com/Gv26Jra
- Replying to @JohnArchibaldBrookside went all in on the taxation by citation plan, and the numbers are staggering. In 2018 fines and forfeitures made up 14 percent of city revenue. That’s higher than some would want, but in the normal range. By 2020 it was 49 percent of the budget.
- Replying to @JohnArchibaldThis fiscal year, 106 people over the age of 60 have been considered for parole in Alabama, according to parole board records. Just seven – or 6.6 percent – have been granted parole. This fiscal year, 21 people over 70 have come up for parole. None were granted release. None.
- Replying to @JohnArchibaldYet Alabama prisons are notoriously overcrowded, and lambasted by the feds -- under Jeff Session's Justice Department, even -- on system is notoriously overcrowded, as unsafe, inhumane and unconstitutional.
- Replying to @JohnArchibaldKeep in mind that in Ferguson, Mo., before Michael Brown was shot was criticized for using fines and forfeitures to fund 20 percent of the city revenue, and states have passed laws to limit the amount of the budget they can collect. Brookside’s chief wants MORE.
