An inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections. The new prison will be named in honor of Gov. Kay Ivey.
State officials will name a $1 billion prison in Elmore County after Gov. Kay Ivey, who made its construction a priority in her first term.
Members of the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority (ACIFA), which oversees prison financing, voted Wednesday to call the facility the “Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex.”
Gina Maiola, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement Wednesday that Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm proposed the move, “and the governor ultimately gave it her blessing.”
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“There is no governor in Alabama’s history who has done more to improve the state’s corrections system than Governor Ivey, so it is fitting that one of the new facilities will bear her name,” the statement said. “And her work on this issue is certainly not done.”
A spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Corrections Wednesday referred to Maiola’s statement.