An Alabama legislative committee Thursday approved contracts worth $800,000 with four law firms to defend Alabama Department ...

Legislators told an Alabama Department of Corrections official Wednesday that they were concerned by reports that inmates ...

Family members and attorneys say the Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists to isolated cells.

The incarcerated men who produced footage for The Alabama Solution were abruptly transferred to solitary this month.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The documentary The Alabama Solution, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, uses video captured inside Alabama’s prisons to show violence, forced ...

Legislators largely seemed receptive to a budget request from the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) during hearings on Thursday. The Governor’s Office recommended that ADOC receive about $868 ...

A northeast Alabama mother will serve life in prison on charges of kidnapping and murdering another young woman.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Family members of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons packed a Wednesday meeting of the Legislative Prison Committee and then held a rally on the steps of the Capitol. They said ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama raised ...