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Alabama has an incarceration rate of 898 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than any independent democratic country on earth.
Bar charts showing that in Alabama prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
In Fiscal year 2021, the Alabama Department of Corrections worked with Alabama Interactive, LLC, our selected community partner, to provide free COVID-19 PCR tests to ADOC staff, inmates and contracted healthcare staff
As of December 31, 2020, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama correctional authorities was 25,344 located in 15 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. State operated facilities had a budget of $563,432,390.
Pie chart showing that 43,122 Alabama residents are locked up in federal prisons, state prisons, local jails and other types of facilities
Prison Reform / Justice Reinvestment Initiative Population: Offenders who are technical violators of parole or probation, and are sanctioned to ADOC custody for a period up to 45 days. Also includes offenders sentenced to ADOC custody for Class D felonies.
Prison Reform / Justice Reinvestment Initiative Population: Offenders who are technical violators of parole or probation, and are sanctioned to ADOC custody for a period up to 45 days. Also includes offenders sentenced to ADOC custody for Class D felonies.
