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Eddie Burkhalter

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Covers:  Alabama's criminal justice system.
Researcher @alaAppleseed. Former journalist. Words in @Annistonstar @nytimes and elsewhere. Van aficionado.

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Eddie Burkhalter’s Biography

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Eddie Burkhalter is a researcher for Alabama Appleseed. In that role he investigates Alabama’s reliance on court fines and fees to fund government, predatory policing, and the state’s troubled prisons.

Eddie graduated from Jacksonville State University with a bachelor’s degree in integrated studies. He moved to Alabama from his home state of Georgia in 2001, and while studying at Jacksonville State University, Eddie took a job at a local weekly newspaper. A few years later he moved on to that c…

Eddie Burkhalter’s Journalist Portfolio

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Former Anniston Star reporters say paper's former publisher and current chairman sexually assault...

Former Anniston Star reporters say paper's former publisher and current chairman sexually assault...

By Eddie Burkhalter Special to the Alabama Political Reporter As news articles broke throughout 2017 of men a…

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Officials say CDP trainees practiced with live toxin because of mix up

Officials say CDP trainees practiced with live toxin because of mix up

Thousands of first responders who have trained with the live biological toxin ricin at a federal training fac…

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Congressman learned of respirator concerns before regulators, former CDP executive says

Congressman learned of respirator concerns before regulators, former CDP executive says

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, learned that respirators used at an Anniston center were not certified nearly …

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Tribe tends to sacred flame 200 years after exit from Alabama

Tribe tends to sacred flame 200 years after exit from Alabama

HENRYETTA, Okla. - Larry Bear looked at the men standing in the circle and wanted to be with them. He wanted …

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Reports show Army concern over mask use at CDP

Reports show Army concern over mask use at CDP

U.S. Army inspection reports from a 2013 visit to a federal training center in Anniston show the military dis…

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Company says it didn't sell execution drug to Alabama

Company says it didn't sell execution drug to Alabama

Officials with a company identified in state court filings as a supplier of a drugs used in executions said T…

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Articles

Breaking the Silence of Alabama's Prisons

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By Eddie Burkhalter
| CounterPunch Verified
The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It isn’t peace. It’s resignation. It’s the dull, endless quiet of men waiting for someone to care. For decades, no one has—not in the ways that matter. Matthew Vernon Whalan’s book is a rebuke of that silence, and to the system that has sustained it.
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Death toll inside Alabama prisons reaches 277 in 2024

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By Carla Crowder, Eddie Burkhalter, Joshua D. Hamer, Klifton Adam Bond
| Open Legal Blog Archive
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher There were 277 deaths in Alabama prisons in 2024, a slight decline from the record high 325 from the previous year, but the state’s prison deaths remain more than four times the national average. Appleseed obtained last year’s death count through a records request to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). Although the official count from ADOC puts last year’s deaths at 277, the actual number could be higher.
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Death toll inside Alabama prisons reaches 277 in 2024 – Alabama Appleseed

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By Carla Crowder, Eddie Burkhalter
| Alabama Appleseed
By Eddie Burkhalter, Appleseed Researcher There were 277 deaths in Alabama prisons in 2024, a slight decline from the record high 325 from the previous year, but the state’s prison deaths remain more than four times the national average. Appleseed obtained last year’s death count through a records request to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC). Although the official count from ADOC puts last year’s deaths at 277, the actual number could be higher.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

Covered all beats at a small Alabama weekly.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, but not for work. I'm of the keyboard generation.

How is social media changing news?

It's giving journalists quicker access to sources, but costs them in time spent dealing with comments/messages/the feeds.

Awards

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Alabama Press Association

2012 - Best local education coverage

First place.

Alabama Press Association

2012 - Best feature story

Second place.

Alabama Press Association

2012 - Best spot news story

Second place

Alabama Press Association

2011 - Best news feature story

First place

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