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 ...

Drug smuggling by staff has become a recurring problem in Alabama's prison system, along with assaults and overcrowding.

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

Alabama’s most recent execution kickstarted a swarm of questions surrounding the use of contraband inside the Alabama ...

A correctional officer in Alabama has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling methamphetamine into the maximum-security ...

Inmates who complained were disciplined, according to the report. “We conclude that the state of Alabama violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution by failing to protect women ...

I don’t know what constituency supports gouging prisoners’ families. Is there a well-adjusted person whose vote depends on ...

The inmates would then submit those elections ... At a media briefing once he was pronounced dead, Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm called the execution "textbook," even though it ...

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 ...