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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Sundance Film Festival begins Thursday in Park City, Utah. There are about 90 features premiering across the 11 days, including one surrounding the Alabama prison system, with screenings starting ...

A high-speed crash on an Alabama road has unearthed a family's darkest secrets - one that could send a mother to prison for life ... It was an out-of-state relative who asked the question ...

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.

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.