Alabama’s Corrections Conundrum
The Alabama Department of Corrections has jurisdiction over more than 32,000 individuals who’ve been convicted of a crime and are serving sentences in prisons, work release centers, supervised reentry programs, and community-based corrections programs. That’s more than double the number of convicts the system had in its charge in 1990, but over that same period, […]
A New Prescription for Medicaid
Any attempt to address the perennial shortfalls faced by the state’s General Fund account has to start with attention to Medicaid, the program that pays for the healthcare and long-term care of the poor and disabled. Total spending on Medicaid in Alabama is budgeted to reach $6.1 billion in 2015, with about 30 percent of […]