While the man who killed Doug Battle got a life sentence, one of his accomplices is about to be executed even though he ...

The buzz is already underway ahead of this year’s Academy Awards. One nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film may be ...

An Alabama state prison officer has been charged with trying to smuggle contraband into the lockup where he worked. Shelley ...

An Academy Award nominated documentary painting a grim picture of conditions inside of Alabama’s prison system has left Ben Stiller still “processing“ what he watched. Stiller made the comment in an ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman also share how viewers can become even more educated about America's prison systems ...

The director of a movie exposing the conditions within the Alabama prison system has invited Kay Ivey to the Academy Awards.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A guard tower at Holman Correctional Facility in 2019. Alabama lawmakers are not yet ready to commit to closing older prisons, a ...

“The Alabama Solution” reveals stark, rarely seen realities inside Alabama prisons and questions whether the system should ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections is getting nearly $600,000 for drug treatment programs in eight state prisons.

An Alabama House committee on Wednesday approved legislation to require the state’s public health department to inspect both ...

A report this week by the U.S. Department of Justice describes disturbing conditions in Alabama's prison system. It highlights prisoner-on-prisoner violence and sexual abuse, issues of overcrowding ...