Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of ...

Six more employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia after being held for two weeks in a concrete cell, while several of ...

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in ...

MONTGOMERY — A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his trial.

Alabama prisons face ongoing issues with overcrowding, unsanitary conditions and extreme temperatures, advocates say. Inmate ...

Three of the private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations. The scathing order said lawyers Matthew Reeves, ...

Advocates, experts, formerly incarcerated individuals and family members of those behind bars Wednesday described an Alabama ...

A variety of issues were brought before lawmakers Wednesday at a Joint Prison Oversight Committee hearing in Montgomery.

Family members of people locked away in Alabama’s prisons told lawmakers on Wednesday horror stories from parole hearings. They said the lack of parole — and the new parole guidelines — take away hope ...

A proposal to close two state prisons has caused different reactions from lawmakers, incarcerated people and prison staff.