A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in ...

A legislative committee Thursday approved legal contracts for the Alabama Department of Corrections involving prison ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

A representative of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) confirmed to the BBJ the department has entered a lease ...

Alabama’s prison system, which has been plagued with violent conditions and drug use due to understaffing and overcrowding, ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama ...

Two men are facing charges after allegedly being found near an Atmore prison with a backpack full of illegal drugs and other ...

"They get new (failure to appear notices), new suspended driver’s licenses. Now, they get pulled over up the road .... now ...

I will note that one of our original six plaintiffs, Mr. Dexter Avery, sadly passed away a couple of months ago while he was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections. So I wanted to ...

encouraged officials to develop a system that integrates municipal court violations with existing information that state has ...

Alabama’s prison system remains under intense scrutiny as state officials work to comply with federal mandates aimed at ...