After executing more people than any other state in 2024, Alabama will carry out its first this year in early February. On ...

A security officer was arrested Friday after an alleged incident at an Alabama prison. According to the Alabama Department of ...

A legislative committee Thursday approved legal contracts for the Alabama Department of Corrections involving prison ...

The death of an inmate at Staton Correctional Facility is under investigation, according to the Alabama Department of ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

Khamya Rynea Walker, a security officer at Easterling Correctional Facility in Barbour County, is an employee of an Alabama Department of Corrections contractor.

An Arab man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for traveling to meet a child for a sex act, according to Marshall ...

A former Tuscumbia police officer's motion to modify his sentence was denied after being sentenced in October.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.

KELLY: When you have taken your reporting to the state, to the Alabama Department of Corrections, what do they say? MASON: So the Department of Corrections - they say that this work that they're ...

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in ...

Did you know that it costs $23,853 to house a single Mississippi inmate for a single year while it costs $18,125 for tuition for a UMMC student.