Two men were arrested on drugs and other charges after they were found on Christmas Eve near a state prison with a backpack ...

A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their ...

The family of a Jefferson County man who died the day he was to be released from prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit ...

A representative of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) confirmed to the BBJ the department has entered a lease ...

The family of Daniel Williams, 22, said he was held hostage, forced to consume drugs, and repeatedly raped for two days.

encouraged officials to develop a system that integrates municipal court violations with existing information that state has ...

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections following the death ...

Alabama set an ambitious goal for itself: lower recidivism by 25% and increase post-incarceration employment rates by 50% by ...

ADOC agents arrested the woman after they said she passed a package containing drugs, a cell phone and a charger to her son ...

U.S. District Judge J. Austin Huffaker rejected a challenge to nitrogen executions from Carey Dale Grayson on Nov. 6. The ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama ...