A bill to expand the state’s definition of sexual extortion to include threats of what is often referred to as “revenge porn, ...

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

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

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

The pulverized face of Steven Davis tells a terrifying story of conditions inside Alabama state prisons – his eyes swollen shut, his bruised flesh a deep purple. "They beat him so badly his head was ...

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

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41. It was the first execution in Alabama ...

Alabama bill allows pregnant women to defer incarceration and provide postpartum care for 12 weeks, with probation until that ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of 41-year-old Pauline Brown. It was the first ...

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CST at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41. It was the first execution in ...