The Alabama Department of Corrections announced Tuesday its Law Enforcement Services Division (LESD) and its K-9 teams ...

Alabama is building a 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County and plans to build another 4,000-bed prison in Escambia County.

Alabama Senate passes a bill allowing $500 million more for state prison construction, raising borrowing to $1.28 billion.

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

Ten former New York corrections employees have been indicted in the death of Robert Brooks, according to an indictment ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

Two men are under arrest after authorities say they tried to smuggle contraband into Alabama prisons. Kevin Harris, of ...

Troy man Jeremy Swanson was denied parole on Feb. 19 for a series of burglary convictions in Pike County.  Swanson was ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents ...