News; Alabama inmate stabbed, hit with pipe inside prison, family says. Updated: ; Nov. 15, 2023, 11:06 p.m. | Published: ; Nov. 14, 2023, 7:02 a.m.

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 ...

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.

An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday after being convicted in the 2010 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of 44-year-old mother Tracy Lynn Wilemon in Chilton County. James Osgood, 55 ...

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.

Brierfield is one of three Alabama communities where the state plans to build new men's prisons, each holding 3,000 to 4,000 inmates. In interviews with residents of two of the communities this ...

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 on a new prison going up in Elmore County.

Captured Alabama prison escapee Casey White's attorneys are asking that he be transferred to a new, breakout-prone Alabama prison. White spent 11 days on the run in May.

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 execution in ...

Crime; 2 former inmates with kids in car allegedly tried to smuggle drugs, phones into Alabama prison . Published: ; Jun. 16, 2025, 7:50 p.m.