Alabama could send inmates to foreign prisons under proposed bill: ‘Our prisons are too soft’

A proposed bill, HB618, would allow Alabama to send people incarcerated in the state to foreign prisons.

“This bill would authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with foreign nations to confine Alabama inmates in a penal institution or correctional facility,” the legislation states.

But the bill was not filed with any intent for it to pass, according to the bill sponsor Rep. Chris Sells, R-Greenville…

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