The Governor Kay Ivey Correctional Complex will be Alabama’s first new prison since the 1990s and will include facilities for medical and mental health care and for vocational education. This new 4,000-bed men’s prison in Elmore County is currently under construction and is expected to be completed Oct. 15 2026. The state is making plans for a second 4,000-bed prison in Escambia County next to the almost century-old Fountain Correctional Facility near Atmore. Plans to build the new prisons were

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