Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed a bill to tap $400 million in pandemic relief funds to help build prisons. Though it received bipartisan support in the state Senate, some congressional Democrats said prison construction was not the relief bill's intent.
In a bipartisan vote that brought few dissents, the Alabama Senate voted 29-2 to approve the $1.3 billion prison construction plan, and 30-1 to steer $400 million of the state’s $2.1 billion from the rescue funds to pay for it.
“This was the right thing for Alabama to do. We’ve got crumbling infrastructure. We’ve got people housed in places that are filthy. We’ve got individuals in working in conditions that are unsafe, ” Albritton said. Democratic Sen. Billy Beasley, the only senator to vote against the measure, had opposed the bills and expressed concern that correctional facilities in his district could close under the plan, striking an economic blow to his rural district. He and several Democrats urged the state to quickly allocate the remaining $1.7 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to health care and other needs.
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