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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

"They get new (failure to appear notices), new suspended driver’s licenses. Now, they get pulled over up the road .... now ...

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

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

As the other men staggered into the storm to flag down help, they wondered: Why would the Alabama Department of Corrections place their lives in Jones’ hands? “They knew he had a propensity to ...

An inmate-on-staff assault was reported at Limestone Correctional Facility, according to the Alabama Department of ...

Authorities with the Alabama Department of Corrections arrested a woman they say passed contraband, including drugs, to her ...