Alabama’s billion-dollar prison plan does not end the overcrowding 
The construction comes during the DOJ's lawsuit against Alabama prisons, but the agency said in its 2019 letter to the state that building new prisons wouldn’t solve Alabama’s prison crisis.
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### Response: The construction comes during the DOJ's lawsuit against Alabama prisons, but the agency said in its 2019 letter to the state that building new prisons wouldn’t solve Alabama’s prison crisis.