The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama's report examining the prison system found "alarming" trends.

The Alabama Department of Corrections will close the main building and dormitory at Holman prison, relocating more than 600 prisoners to other facilities around the state in a move Commissioner ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) — A visitor at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore was arrested Saturday on contraband charges. According to a news release from the Alabama Department of ...

Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000-bed prison Photos of construction on Alabama's new mega prison for men ...

Drug smuggling by staff has become a recurring problem in Alabama's prison system, along with assaults and overcrowding.

Former Governor Don Seigleman urged the state to launch faith based honor dorms in the prisons which would offer safety to those inmates working to find a path out.

Prison can be a lonely, violent place. But one program — or more specifically, one Jefferson City, Missouri, prison resident — is helping change the men around him.

Zachary Trayler and Kenneth Clayton sit in front of a chess game at a recreation room table in the Algoa Correctional center honor dorm in Jefferson City, Missouri on March 14, 2024. In the background ...

Located nine miles north of Atmore, Alabama, is the legendarily violent prison known by many lags as the "Slaughterhouse". The William C. Holman Correctional Facility also bears the nicknames like ...

Problems at Donaldson Correctional Facility, where a fellow inmate reported a man's death to his parents last month, have been extensively documented.

In a statement, the Alabama Department of Corrections says the agency will "fervently defend" its system against the lawsuit, which it says undermines months of settlement negotiations that it ...

The charges, which include civil rights violations and obstruction of justice, stem from an assault at the Bibb Correctional Facility in 2018, prosecutors said.