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

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000 ...

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

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

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

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

Cordel Ladon Battle was found with sustained sharp force injuries during a reported assault, according to the Jefferson County Coroner.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 ...

The previous three have been contentious points of conversation nationwide because of the controversial method that the State ...

The Senate Finance and Taxation Committee-General Fund on Wednesday advanced legislation that would raise the maximum amount of bonds that may be issued by the Alabama Corrections Institution ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 and 2015. He has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers in the ...