A south Alabama family is seeking answers about what happened to their loved one inside an Alabama prison, leaving him hospitalized for more than a week. Barbara Anne Turner said she found out ...

Two Birmingham-area men, both former state inmates, are jailed in south Alabama after reportedly trying to deliver contraband to an Alabama prison. Sherman Mickles, 35, of Pleasant Grove, and ...

More: Ivey: Alabama plans to build new prisons in Bibb, Elmore and Escambia counties Those interviewed expressed many different concerns about the prison. Several worried about prisoner escapes.

U.S. marshals and sheriff’s deputies conducted an 11-day manhunt for an Alabama murder suspect and the jailer who helped him escape from prison.

A 22-year-old man in Alabama was sentenced to life in prison in the 1980s after he stole about $50 from a bakery. After more than three decades behind bars, he is now set to walk free. As a judge ...

Chancellor Jimmy Baker has led the community college system in beefing up workforce development and prison education programs.

Alabama’s prisons have been strained for decades.But most lawmakers, to the degree they care at all, think we can build our way out of it. This is how we’ve ended up spending over $1 billion ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s fourth nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in.

On September 26th, prisoners in Alabama began a work stoppage to protest their living conditions and several of the state’s tough sentencing and parole laws. (It’s one of only seven states ...

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen ...

Alabama has carried out the nation’s 4th nitrogen gas execution, putting a man to death for the killing of a woman who was raped and shot during an apartment break-in ...