Alabama plans to spend $400 million in funds from the American Rescue Plan to build and renovate prisons.
earlier this week to Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen pressing her to prevent the state from using American Rescue Plan dollars to build prisons.
“Directing funding meant to protect our citizens from a pandemic to fuel mass incarceration is, in direct contravention of the intended purposes of the [American Rescue Plan] legislation and will particularly harm communities of color who are already disproportionately impacted by over-incarceration and this public health crisis,” Nadler wrote, urging Alabama to release individuals from prisons instead of “worsen[ing] our national problem of over-incarceration.
Ivey, in remarks earlier this week, defended the plan and responded to Nadler, saying “sending a letter in the last hour will not change the way the law is written.” “The Democrat-controlled federal government has never had an issue with throwing trillions of dollars toward their ideological pet projects,” the governor said in aTuesday. “These prisons need to be built, and we have crafted a fiscally conservative plan.”
Republican leaders in the legislature said that they believe this is a proper use of the funds because states can use Covid relief to replace lost revenue due to the pandemic and retain jobs, the AP reported.at a Wednesday briefing, “I would be surprised if that was the intention of the funding.”
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