An Arizona death row prisoner asked the state’s highest court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, pushing as he had in the ...

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