Last year's meeting Families of inmates describe 'horrific' conditions in Alabama prisons “Because while I was in prison, it ...

Advocates, experts, formerly incarcerated individuals and family members of those behind bars Wednesday described an Alabama ...

Inmates and their families are raising alarms about the dire conditions at Tutwiler Prison for Women, describing it as a ...

Family members of people locked away in Alabama’s prisons told lawmakers on Wednesday horror stories from parole hearings. They said the lack of parole — and the new parole guidelines — take away hope ...

Three of the private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations. The scathing order said lawyers Matthew Reeves, ...

Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of ...

A contract healthcare worker for the Alabama Department of Corrections was arrested Friday a drug checkpoint at a north Alabama prison. Monica Tara Bishop, 44, was taken into custody after a brief ...

Two Alabama Department of Corrections employees – one a new hire and the other a trainee - were arrested this week on drug charges.

State corrections officials say they found Fastnacht trying to get the drugs and other items into Ventress Correctional in Clayton.

If the legislature really wanted to reduce the prison population, they would repeal these petty statutes like disorderly conduct and bail jumping.