FCI Aliceville became operational in 2013. Aliceville public officials approved the project with the support of residents who hope that the facility would provide jobs and boost local businesses. The town's population is about 2,500, with unemployment near 11 percent, well above the national average. Aliceville officials estimate the facility will generate between 700 and 1,000 trips per day, which will lead to new hotels, restaurants and gas stations being opened. The medium-security prison is expected to house 1,400 female inmates and employ between 320 and 350 people when it reaches full operating capacity. However, 40 percent of those jobs will go to existing federal prison employees.[3] The Bureau of Prisons has already transferred female inmates to FCI Aliceville from FCI Danbury, which is being converted back to an all-male facility.[4]
Pickens County, previously losing population, became the fastest growing county in Alabama in 2014 because of the installation of the prison.[5]
The prison, managed by two construction companies, had a scheduled cost of $185 million. Caddell and W.G. Yates & Sons, of Montgomery, Alabama and Philadelphia, Mississippi, respectively, worked on the project.[1]
Programs and services
FCI Aliceville offers a literacy program designed to help inmates develop foundational knowledge and skills in reading, math, written expression, and to prepare inmates for GED classes. Inmates with low-English proficiency are required to take ESL classes. Adult continuing education, college correspondence programs and parenting classes are also available. A Release Preparation Program is geared towards preparing inmates for their return to society. Inmate tutors teach skills including job searching, resume writing, budgeting and buying a home.[7]
Serving a 30-year sentence; scheduled for release on November 10, 2039.[8]
Pleaded guilty on December 12, 2013, to second-degree murder for luring her new husband, Cody Johnson, to Glacier National Park in Montana and pushing him off a cliff to his death on July 7, 2013.[9][10]
35-year sentence vacated; sentenced to time served; released February 28, 2020.[12]
Sovereign citizen movement member; convicted in 2009 of stockpiling bombs, handguns and high-powered rifles during an 8-month standoff with authorities attempting to apprehend her and her husband, Ed Brown, for a 2007 tax evasion conviction.[13][14][15]
Convicted in 2020 of seven counts of second degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder. She injected the victims at the Louis A. JohnsonVA Medical Center in Clarksburg, WV with lethal amounts of insulin.[21]
The first woman sentenced to death by a United States federal jury since the 1950s. She was sentenced to death for her role in the murders of five people in 1993. She was re-sentenced to life without parole in December 2014. Her accomplice, Dustin Honken, was sentenced to death and executed on July 17, 2020.
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