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Elmore Families Demand Prison Reform Amid Human Rights Crisis

12/5/2025

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In Elmore, Alabama, families and advocates plan another work stoppage to protest conditions they describe as human rights violations.
Clara Brooks of the Free Alabama Movement and Rufus Ricks, a former inmate, highlighted a humanitarian crisis despite federal investigations.
The group seeks reforms to the habitual offender act and the prison labor system.
They criticized the new $1.2 billion prison, arguing it will not address existing problems.

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In Elmore, Alabama, families and advocates plan another work stoppage to protest conditions they describe as human rights violations.
Clara Brooks of the Free Alabama Movement and Rufus Ricks, a former inmate, highlighted a humanitarian crisis despite federal investigations.
The group seeks reforms to the habitual offender act and the prison labor system.
They criticized the new $1.2 billion prison, arguing it will not address existing problems.