The Alabama Department of Corrections began the first prisoner transfer this week after maintenance issues worsened in recent weeks, ADOC said.

Alabama Department of Corrections officials say a prison has been placed on lockdown after inmates set a fire inside a dorm.

More: Alabama to close most of Holman prison, move inmates across state "The ADOC temporarily is moving a small number inmates already housed at Donaldson into the facility’s gymnasium while ...

The Latest on the disturbances at a prison in Alabama where inmates have stabbed each other and prison authorities and barricaded themselves in a dormitory (all times local): ___ 5:20 p.m.

The closure of the main unit at Holman Correctional Facility means that other Alabama prisons will have to absorb more than 600 additional inmates.

Approximately 150 of Holman correctional facilities low-risk inmates serving life without parole sentences will be moved to the facilities standalone E dorm at Holman, formally the faith-based ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A state prison in Alabama will be largely shut down because of infrastructure problems, the state corrections commissioner announced Wednesday in the latest upheaval of a ...

The Governor's Study Group on Criminal Justice Policy toured the maximum security prison that is home to Alabama's death row.

Approximately 150 of Holman correctional facilities low-risk inmates serving life without parole sentences will be moved to the facilities standalone E dorm at Holman, formally the faith-based ...

Alabama prisons in December housed more than 24,282 inmates in facilities originally designed to hold 13,318, according to monthly statistics from the Department of Corrections.

The Alabama Department of Corrections announces they will close and decommission the main facility at William C. Holman Correctional Facility. The statement says the facility is one of the ...

The disturbance began Monday morning when a prisoner stabbed another inmate at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, about 50 miles north of Mobile, said Alabama Department of ...