An Alabama state prison officer has been charged with trying to smuggle contraband into the lockup where he worked. Shelley ...

The director of a movie exposing the conditions within the Alabama prison system has invited Kay Ivey to the Academy Awards.

The buzz is already underway ahead of this year’s Academy Awards. One nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film may be ...

“The Alabama Solution” reveals stark, rarely seen realities inside Alabama prisons and questions whether the system should ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman also share how viewers can become even more educated about America's prison systems ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections is getting nearly $600,000 for drug treatment programs in eight state prisons.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guard tower at Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Alabama lawmakers are not yet ready to commit to closing older prisons, a ...

A report this week by the U.S. Department of Justice describes disturbing conditions in Alabama's prison system. It highlights prisoner-on-prisoner violence and sexual abuse, issues of overcrowding ...

The Justice Department threatened to sue the Alabama state prison system Wednesday over shocking and brutal conditions uncovered during a 2 1/2-year investigation into the state’s massively ...

An Alabama House committee on Wednesday approved legislation to require the state’s public health department to inspect both ...