The Alabama Department of Corrections has created an online form for inquiries and is hiring constituent contact employees ...

The Elmore Specialized Men's Facility will have 4,000 beds, including space for medical and mental health care.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday sharply questioned the head of the state parole board about their low ...

Playgrounds have been installed at two women’s prisons in Alabama to make family visitation better, according to the Alabama ...

Since 2019, parole approval rates have plummeted from more than half of applicants being released to lows of 1 to 3 percent ...

A Morgan County corrections officer was injured after being punched in the face by an inmate on Sunday, October 13.

Last week, an Alabama correctional officer at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore was arrested on suspicion of smuggling ...

Dearman was sentenced to death for the 2016 murders of Joseph Adam Turner, 26, Robert Lee Brown, 26, Chelsea Marie Reed, 22, ...

Dearman was a “single-walk inmate,” meaning he was one of the most restricted inmates on Alabama’s death row ... for introducing contraband to the prison system. He said over 155 civilians ...

Instances of fighting and assaults on staff within Alabama prisons increased year-over-year in August as state lawmakers continue to grapple with the state’s violent prison system.

ATMORE, Ala. -- Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled ...

Holman is the primary correctional facility for death row inmates in Alabama, and it is the only one in the state that carries out executions, according to the Department of Corrections website.