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PHOTOS: Ducks, Jeeps and Great Music offer a Day of Fun in Millbrook
Beautiful weather welcomed visitors yesterday to Village Green Park in Millbrook for Ducks, Jeeps and Tunes!. The West Elmore Lions Club hosted its second annual Duck Race, this year in memory of Shana Faulkner, who passed recently but was a vibrant, active community servant and well loved throughout Elmore County. She was the beloved wife of Art Faulkner. Many family members and friends gathered for a group photo, which you can see on this page.
No bond for grandson, grandfather still on ventilator
Cameron Keyontae Jackson will remain in the Elmore County Jail with no bond available until trial while he is accused of stabbing his grandfather — who six days later is still on the ventilator in a Montgomery hospital. Nineteenth Judicial Circuit District Attorney CJ Robinson said the case is...
Alabama’s billion-dollar prison now most expensive in the US
This is an opinion column. Years ago, I lived in denial. My hair was thinning in the back and I fretted over what to do about the hole in my ozone layer. I tried that prescription spray, but it didn’t seem to do much. Finally, I asked my barber.
‘Unsustainable’: New Alabama prison will cost over $1 billion to build
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — The cost of a new 4,000-bed men’s prison in Elmore County is expected to cost upwards of $1 billion after a finance meeting Tuesday. The initial price estimate for the new prison was about $620 million in April of 2022. This March, it climbed to $975 million. After Tuesday’s meeting of the […]
State Prison Expenditure Surpasses $1 Billion, Reports News 19 at 6 p.m. on September 27, 2023
Discover the escalating costs of the new men's prison in Elmore County, now projected to exceed $1 billion. Unearth the details from the recent finance meeting and understand the implications of this budget blowout on News 19's latest report.
Alabama's New Prison Project Cost Surges to Over $1 Billion Amid Overcrowding Issues
Construction costs for the new prison in Elmore County, Alabama, set to be finished in 2026, have risen $482 million above the initial estimate. The project was planned to address the serious issue of overcrowding in Alabama's prisons, and the rising expenses, now surpassing $1 billion, have sparked worry.
New Elmore County men’s prison will cost over $1 billion
A state authority Tuesday put a “final guaranteed maximum price” on a new men’s prison in Elmore County at $1.082 billion, nearly equal to what legislators two years ago allocated for two men’s prisons. The higher price tag – blamed on inflation and changes to spaces...
Price on Alabama’s new 4,000-bed men’s prison rises above $1 billion
The price tag on Alabama’s new prison under construction in Elmore County has risen again, this time to $1.082 billion. The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority (ACIFA), a panel that includes Gov. Kay Ivey, the state finance director, lawmakers and others, approved the new “final guaranteed maximum price” on the prison Tuesday.