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Houston was made the seat in 1858, but the minutes from a grand jury meeting in 1867 reported the need to build a courthouse and a jail. The county seat was moved to Double Springs in 1884, resulting in Houston shrinking to the small unincorporated community that it is today.
Houston is an unincorporated community in Winston County, Alabama, United States. [2] It was the county seat from 1858 until 1884, when the seat was moved to Double Springs . [ 3 ] Houston has one site on the National Register of Historic Places , the log Houston Jail .
The town is located on the Georgia-Alabama state line along Alabama State Routes 52 and 95. AL-52 is the main east–west route through the town, leading east 1 mi (1.6 km) to the Georgia state line, and west 10 mi (16 km) to Webb. AL-95 begins in the town and leads north 23 mi (37 km) to Abbeville.
An Alabama sheriff evacuated his county's jail Thursday, citing a need to prevent unspecified “health and safety issues.” Autauga County Sheriff Mark Harrell said in a statement posted on ...
An Alabama man who told a police officer, “Get your ass out of the way” after he was ticketed during a traffic stop last year says he was ordered by a judge to either apologize to the officer ...
Russell and his children founded the Citizens' Bank of Alexander City in 1900, followed by the Russell Manufacturing Company in 1902. The company, along with B. B. Comer's Avondale Mills, turned Alex City into one of the textile centers of the South. In 1913, the family built several houses on a hillside overlooking the mills.
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Corizon was sued for malpractice 660 times between 2011 and 2016. [11] [12]Corizon Health, like its predecessors CMS and PHS, has faced criticism from government officials, public-health advocates and experts for being more concerned with maintaining lucrative government contracts than effectively treating sick inmates, who are considered the most chronically and profoundly physically and ...