This edition exposes a hard truth: Alabama’s prison system increasingly treats incarcerated people as financial assets rather than human beings. Through work-release labor, wage deductions, and institutional incentives, profit is prioritized while violence, understaffing, and failed rehabilitation persist. The result is a system that generates revenue without accountability—at significant human and public-safety costs.

ALPRP challenges this model by demanding transparency, ethical labor standards, and a shift from extraction to rehabilitation.