The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) continues to confront four major problems, the first two of which were addressed by the Governor’s Task Force on Prison Crowding:
1. Prison crowding at medium or higher level security facilities;
2....
Alabama’s older population – persons 60 years and older – numbers 769,880 according to
Census 2000, which is the most recent year for which U.S. Census Bureau data is available.
They represent 17.3 percent of Alabama’s total population...