Fewer people died inside the prisons than in 2023, when prisoners were five times as likely to die as the national average.

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.

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

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 ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...

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 ...

Alabama state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, has prefiled a series of bills aimed at increasing penalties for firearm related offenses and banning Glock switches in response to the Sept.

Demetrius Frazier, a poor Black man on Alabama’s death row, is scheduled to be tortured to death by being forced to breathe ...

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 ...