Under existing law, the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority is authorized to issue bonds for prison construction purposes.
This bill would allow the authority to issue additional bonds in an amount not to exceed $785 million, as necessary, to implement a prison modernization plan in a phased approach that would replace existing bed space in Department of Corrections facilities through the construction of a new specialized men's prison facility on state-owned land in Elmore County that would provide enhanced medical, mental health, and other health care, substance abuse and addiction treatment, and educational and other programming services to inmates; the construction of a new prison facility for male inmates on state-owned land in Escambia County; the construction of a new women's prison facility on state-owned land in Elmore County; and the renovation and improvement of existing state-owned prison facilities in Jefferson County, Limestone County, and an additional existing facility to be selected by the authority to be located in Barbour or Bullock County.
Source: Alabama Legislature