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Hard Times Reviewer

Matthew Vernon Whalan

Poverty, prison, homelessness, book reviews, political commentary, and more

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(Part One) "Somebody Has Got to do the Stories, So it Might as Well be Me"

(In late 2019 or early 2020, I reached out to a couple of local reporters for help with my work. Eddie Burkhalter, who was doing great work on the prisons for Alabama Political Reporter at that time, responded right away. He’s become someth...

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Brief Update on the Jimmy Davis Jr. Case, Alabama Death Row

Last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against my friend Jimmy Davis Jr.’s appeal to overturn his death sentence for the 1993 murder of an oil station attendant named Johnny Hazel, upholding Davis’ death sentence.

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Reflections on Childhood, Grief, and Family After Leaving Alabama Prison

Airport and Vine, Birmingham, Alabama, “They took it, bought all the properties out around the surrounding areas because they was going to upgrade the airport, but they never did,” Matthew Leonard tells me in October 2024, about three and a...

11 days ago
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Notes on Larry W. Yackle's 1989 Book on Federal Judicial Involvement in Alabama's Prison System From Early 70s to Early 80s

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  • Matthew Vernon Whalan

    Matthew Vernon Whalan's work has appeared in The Alabama Political Reporter, Scheer Post, New York Journal of Books, Jacobin Magazine, and elsewhere. He is the author of Doing Time: American Mass Imprisonment Pandemic.

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