A security officer was arrested Friday after an alleged incident at an Alabama prison. According to the Alabama Department of ...

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

Khamya Rynea Walker, a security officer at Easterling Correctional Facility in Barbour County, is an employee of an Alabama Department of Corrections contractor.

The death of an inmate at Staton Correctional Facility is under investigation, according to the Alabama Department of ...

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

A former Tuscumbia police officer's motion to modify his sentence was denied after being sentenced in October.

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

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.

KELLY: When you have taken your reporting to the state, to the Alabama Department of Corrections, what do they say? MASON: So the Department of Corrections - they say that this work that they're ...

Union organizing efforts met mixed results, companies fought lawsuits over hiring children, and Republicans attacked access ...

A judge ordered a new school board election in Ben Hill County after election officials made mistakes that left the race off 88 voters' ballots.