NO MORE.
If abuse, corruption and coverups are allowed to happen in Alabama prisons, they can happen anywhere.
Learn about the campaign to say “No More” – a group of state and national organizations working together to demand safety, transparency, and accountability.
What is No More?
No More is a campaign demanding safety, transparency, and accountability in Alabama’s prisons.
People are dying in state custody.
The campaign calls attention to preventable deaths, violence, medical neglect, overdose, suicide, and unsafe conditions inside Alabama prisons.
The public deserves the truth.
Families, journalists, legislators, and taxpayers need accurate information about deaths, spending, officer misconduct, and retaliation against whistleblowers.
Power without consequence keeps people unsafe.
No More demands independent oversight, action against abusive officers, protection for whistleblowers, and investment in solutions that actually improve public safety.
Since the U.S. Department of Justice found Alabama’s prisons unconstitutional, MORE THAN 1,500 Alabamians have died there.
Alabama has known. Alabama has failed to act.
Since the U.S. Department of Justice found Alabama’s prisons unconstitutional, the state has continued to operate a system marked by death, violence, secrecy, and public spending without public accountability.
Families are living with fear and unanswered questions.
Deaths in custody, delayed notification, poor reporting, and lack of transparency leave families fighting for basic facts after irreversible harm has already occurred.
Taxpayers are funding failure.
Alabama continues to spend heavily on prison construction, legal defense, settlements, and crisis management while the conditions driving harm remain unresolved.
By the Numbers
What $68M could have built instead
Alabama has spent at least $68 million defending prison violence. Those funds could have delivered measurable, statewide benefits that make Alabamians healthier, safer, and more secure.
The state is already spending the money. The question is where it goes: toward defending failure, or building something that works.
Substance use treatment placements
Reducing cycles of incarceration and crisis.
Fully funded medical degrees
Expanding Alabama’s healthcare workforce for decades.
People receiving a full year of care
Comprehensive mental health care including therapy, psychiatry, and case management.
People housed post-release
Strengthening reentry and reducing recidivism.
The documentary that helped bring the crisis to light.
The award-winning documentary The Alabama Solution brought Alabama’s prison crisis to national attention. It joins decades of vital reporting on the topic.
Now, the NO MORE campaign gives viewers, families, advocates, and concerned Alabamians a way to move from awareness to action.
No more silencing.
Support the men featured in The Alabama Solution who blew the whistle on the AL Dept. of Corrections.
The Blow Your Whistle fundraising initiative is organized by friends of Melvin Ray, Ricardo (Raoul) Poole, and Kinetik Justice (Robert Earl Council), who were featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution.
Prison officials have misclassified deaths, obscured data, and retaliated against whistleblowers. With no accountability or access provided, contraband cell phones are one of the last ways for the public to see the truth.
Support whistleblowers.
Donate to the brave men who were whistleblowers in The Alabama Solution risking everything to expose the brutality and corruption inside Alabama prisons.
DONATEWhat accountability requires.
No more secrecy.
Establish independent oversight and accurate reporting of deaths, violence, spending, and misconduct.
No more silencing.
Protect whistleblowers and end retaliation against people who expose harm inside Alabama prisons.
No more killer officers.
Terminate, investigate, and prosecute officers who engage in abuse or misconduct.
No more waste.
Stop pouring public money into prison expansion while basic safety, treatment, education, and reentry needs remain unmet.
No more forced labor.
End exploitation of incarcerated workers and confront the contradiction between forced labor and parole denial.
No more broken promises.
Ensure parole, reentry, medical care, mental health care, and rehabilitation systems function in practice.
Demand accountability for violence, corruption, and coverups in Alabama prisons.
If abuse, corruption and coverups are allowed to happen in Alabama prisons, they can happen anywhere.
Demand accountability for killer officers.
As a first step to demonstrating that Alabama won’t tolerate abusive officers, state leaders must take immediate action.
People in Alabama prisons are being harmed — and the state continues to protect those responsible.
Support the men who exposed the crisis.
Donate to the brave whistleblowers in The Alabama Solution who risked everything to expose brutality and corruption inside Alabama prisons.
Support Melvin Ray, Ricardo “Raoul” Poole, and Kinetik Justice (Robert Earl Council).
Read the new brief.
Since 2020, the Alabama Department of Corrections has spent at least $68 million in taxpayer dollars on legal defense and settlements tied to violence, neglect, and preventable harm inside state prisons.
The brief documents this spending and presents concrete alternatives that would have made Alabamians healthier, safer, and more secure.
The Undersigned
An Open Letter to Alabamians and Our Leaders from Your Neighbors.
People signed the open letter calling for safety, transparency, and accountability in Alabama’s prisons.
Read letter signed by 3K+ people
We are fellow Alabamians writing with urgency and grief. Since 2019, when the US Department of Justice found Alabama’s prisons to be unconstitutional, more than 1,300 Alabamians have died there.
Our prisons have become the deadliest in America, with the highest rates of murder, overdose, and suicide.
Our leaders responded by denying the scale of the crisis and failing to respond with urgency. Instead, they have authorized transferring $100M from our education budget to cover shortfalls as prison construction costs skyrocket.
This is not a partisan issue. We all want safety for our families and communities. This is not what conservatives mean by being “tough on crime” and it’s not what Christians mean by “loving our neighbor as we love ourselves.” It is common sense that subjecting people to ongoing violence and harm does not prepare them to rejoin society when they leave prison, as more than 90% eventually will.
While our prisons have long been shrouded in secrecy, a new documentary called The Alabama Solution exposes corruption and cover-ups by the administration, and serves as a warning for the entire nation.
By the Numbers
- More than 1,300 people have died in Alabama prisons since 2019, and annual deaths doubled between 2019 and 2024.
- Drug-related deaths increased ten-fold over the past five years, with people in prison overdosing thirteen times more than the statewide average. Officers and prisoners alike admit that the majority of drugs are brought in by officers.
- Homicides are seven times higher than a decade ago.
- Suicides more than doubled in five years, despite major court rulings over mental healthcare.
- Prisons consume nearly a quarter of Alabama’s general fund, more than we spend on public health and mental health services combined.
- Each new mega-prison bed is projected to cost more than $300K, far more than the average Alabama family home.
- Fewer than 20% of eligible incarcerated people were granted parole from 2019 to 2024.
- More than $450M per year is extracted in forced prison labor, either unpaid or severely underpaid, as little as $2 per day, while basic rehabilitation programs collapse.
- The State has spent MORE THAN $52M to settle or litigate individual and class-action lawsuits, including defending officers and the State against alleged abuse. Rather than terminating some of the most violent officers, the Corrections Department has promoted them.
- Prison officials have misclassified deaths, obscured data, and retaliated against whistleblowers. With no accountability or access provided, contraband cell phones, largely brought in and sold by guards, are one of the last ways for the public to see the truth.
We Stand Together to Say NO MORE.
- No more secrecy. Establish a fully independent oversight body, and ensure accurate reporting of death and other data.
- No more silencing. Protect whistleblowers like Robert Earl Council and Melvin Ray who appear in the documentary and have taken risks to expose the crisis.
- No more waste. The budget for just one of Alabama’s new megaprisons has risen to more than $1B, with at least one more megaprison anticipated. Instead of prison expansion, improve public safety by redirecting resources to treatment, education, and reentry.
- No more extreme sentences or broken promises. Too many sentences aren’t commensurate with risk to public safety, and too many people remain far longer than needed. Ensure parole functions fairly, with higher approval rates for those who are able to safely return to their families and communities.
- No more violence by guards. Every abusive officer who is not terminated is a threat to safety, a stain on our justice system, and a liability to Alabama taxpayers.
- No more forced labor. Incarcerated workers produce more than $450M annually in goods and unpaid services for the State. Yet prisoners deemed safe enough to work at the Governor’s Mansion, State agencies, and be leased out to businesses across Alabama, are often granted parole at hopelessly low rates.
A Call to Action
We call on Alabama’s elected officials and our Department of Corrections to increase transparency and accountability, and to ensure constitutional protections for incarcerated Alabamians.
And we call on people everywhere to recognize that corrupt prisons consuming our budgets, destroying our families, and killing people with impunity are not making us safer.