


Appleseed’s 2022 legislative priorities: opportunity, safety, and common sense investments in our future
Akiesha Anderson, Carla Crowder, Leah Nelson, News
Alabama Appleseed’s priorities for the 2022 legislative session are narrowly focused on sensible reforms and investments. Our priorities reinforce what so many Alabamians are beginning to understand: as a state, we pour too much money into…

Appleseed Welcomes New Legal Extern Brenita Softley
Access to Justice, Intern, NewsMy name is Brenita Softley, and I am deeply honored to join Alabama Appleseed as a part-time extern. I am in awe of this organization’s mission to achieve justice and equity for all Alabamians— which are reasons that I decided to attend…

Support Appleseed's Re-entry Work this Giving Tuesday
Alabama prisons, Habitual Felony Offender Act, Megan Cheek, News
Appleseed joins the many (many!) outstanding nonprofits for the Giving Tuesday campaign on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. This global day of giving highlights the important work accomplished because of generous donors everywhere.
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We’re Hiring a Legal Fellow to Join Our Team Fighting for a Better Alabama
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About Alabama Appleseed: Alabama Appleseed is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999 whose mission is to achieve justice and equity for all Alabamians. Alabama Appleseed conducts integrated culture and policy change…

Celebrating the freedom and birthday of another Appleseed client
Alabama prisons, Alex LaGanke, Habitual Felony Offender Act, News, Ronald McKeithenWe are thrilled to announce the release of another client, Joe Bennett, today – his first free world birthday in 24 years. Once sentenced to die in prison, Mr. Bennett walked out of Donaldson Correctional Facility on September 21, 2021, after…
Latest News
- Appleseed Welcomes Intern Mercedes Davis May 20, 2022
- Finding Gratitude on Tax Day April 18, 2022
- Alabama will be the second Southern state to allow formerly incarcerated people 6 months to get back on their feet after release. Here’s why that matters – and here’s how it happened. April 18, 2022
- Appleseed is Hiring a Policy Associate! January 18, 2022
- Appleseed’s 2022 legislative priorities: opportunity, safety, and common sense investments in our future January 11, 2022
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Appleseed Welcomes Intern Mercedes Davis
Intern, NewsMy name is Mercedes Davis, and it is with so much gratitude that I announce my internship with Alabama Appleseed this summer. I am a rising 2L at Cumberland School of Law and hold a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My interest in criminal justice reform, specifically prison […]
Finding Gratitude on Tax Day
Catherine Alexander-Wright, Habitual Felony Offender Act, Newsby Catherine Alexander-Wright, MSW, LICSW, Alabama Appleseed Social Worker April 15 along with its not-so-much-recognized but equally-dreaded friend April 18 can be, let’s be honest, a negative experience ranging from nuisance to financial hardship. Regardless of one’s thoughts, opinions, or feelings about taxes, I doubt that tax day is anyone’s favorite date other than – […]
Alabama will be the second Southern state to allow formerly incarcerated people 6 months to get back on their feet after release. Here’s why that matters – and here’s how it happened.
Akiesha Anderson, Fines and Fees, NewsBy: Akiesha Anderson, Alabama Appleseed Policy Director Last summer, when I traveled to Auburn to celebrate Senator Tom Whatley’s birthday, I had no idea what would be birthed as a result of that trip. On my drive from Montgomery to Auburn, I had no plans to run into Representative Jeremy Gray after Senator Whatley’s birthday […]