The Alabama House of Representatives approved a billincreasing the amount the state can borrow to build a second mega prison ...

State legislatures are grappling with how to fund new prisons that Republican governors say are needed to ease overcrowding.

The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that the case of a man who died by suicide in Limestone Correctional Facility will ...

James Osgood, a 55-year-old death row inmate, was convicted of the 2010 rape and murder of Tracy Lynn Brown in Chilton County ...

A majority of Senate Republicans initially sank the bill on a 16-16 vote, but after nearly two hours of uncertainty, the bill ...

Republican Bill Barfoot, the measure’s sponsor, estimates it would affect just 200 of the approximately 20,000 people in Alabama state prisons who were sentenced decades ago under a 1977 habitual ...

A former Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles employee pleaded guilty to three counts of use of office for personal gain on ...

On March 26, 2025, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) made several arrests during an attempt to introduce ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted a death sentence for the first time in her tenure Friday, sparing inmate Robin Dion "Rocky" Myers. The Alabama Supreme Court had cleared the way for Myers to be ...

After two rounds of voting, the Alabama Senate approved a bill that would provide a process for some inmates serving life in prison without the possibility of p ...

An Alabama man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with the deadly shooting of a security guard after a Warner Robins rap concert. Investigators say Morgan Baker and another man ...