Criminal justice reform advocacy groups plan to support bills targeting parole, prison conditions and the death penalty in ...

"Punishing incarcerated people for refusing to work indeed violates the state constitution’s ban on involuntary servitude and ...

An Alabama inmate serving time for robbery is back in custody. Authorities say she was found a week after walking away from a ...

Casey White, the inmate who escaped from an Alabama jail with corrections officer Vicky White, has been indicted for felony murder in connection to her death, according to Lauderdale County Circuit ...

Authorities are searching for Alexus Percival-Lolley, a Birmingham inmate who escaped from a job site in Hoover this afternoon. Percival-Lolley is currently serving time for robbery and left the site ...

Derrick Dearman appeared to be high on drugs in his Alabama prison in the days leading up to his execution. The convicted killer raged in phone calls and emails, anguishing over how his willingness to ...

Most of the complaints are handwritten in ballpoint pen and sent from prisons to federal courts through the U.S. mail. The particulars about the incidents vary, but fear of correctional officers is a ...

The Alabama attorney general’s office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith using the new method. Alabama is seeking to become the first state to ...