Alabama Faces Deadline on Crowded Prison

NPR

Published December 27, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

The state of Alabama has until Monday to ease overcrowded conditions at the state's prison for women, after a federal judge ruled the prison unsafe. NPR’s Melanie Peeples reports.

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