New men’s prison in Elmore County will miss completion deadline, says Corrections

States Newsroom · October 16, 2026

The Alabama Department of Corrections said Friday that completion of the $1.25 billion Gov. Kay Ivey Correctional Complex, a 4,000-bed men’s prison in Elmore County, will be delayed. The department said in a statement Friday that Caddell Construction, a Montgomery-based design-build contractor for the prison, “failed…

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