Leanna Washington, 36, of LaGrange, Georgia, was found dead in the James Morgan County Detention Facility in LaFayette.

Alabama’s new state men’s mega prison, currently under construction in Elmore County, has a new name, and it’s a familiar one.

A contract security officer at a state prison was arrested Friday on several contraband-related charges, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC)announced. Khamya Rynea Walker, is an employee of ...

Attorneys for an Alabama inmate facing execution by nitrogen gas are asking a federal judge to block the upcoming execution.

The inmate's attorneys say he shouldn’t be in the state’s prison system at all, despite admitting guilt to slaying a woman in ...

On Saturday, Leanna Washington, 36, of LaGrange, Georgia was found dead in the James Morgan County Detention Facility in ...

Lawyers for an Alabama death row inmate set to be killed in the state's first execution of 2025 are arguing that he actually belongs in the custody of another state.

After executing more people than any other state in 2024, Alabama will carry out its first this year in early February. On Tuesday, Gov. Kay Ivey published a letter she sent to John Hamm, commissioner ...

Two men were arrested on drugs and other charges after they were found on Christmas Eve near a state prison with a backpack containing drugs and cell phones, according to the Alabama Department of ...

An Irondale man recieved aAttorney General Steve Marshall announced that Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert has been sentenced to ...

The state has buildings and property that might ... The PREP Center was originally built as a prison in 2006. The Alabama prison system never had enough people to staff it. It eventually became ...