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

A contract security officer at a state prison was arrested Friday on several contraband-related charges, the Alabama ...

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

Members of the Contract Review Oversight Committee approved a two-year, $200,000 contract with Terri O. Tompkins, Esq. of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. Agents with the ADOC’s Law Enforcement Services Division and the agency’s K9 Bureau with help from Atmore Police and the Poarch Creek Police ...

Years of overcrowding, understaffing, and allegations of inmate abuse have culminated in a series of lawsuits and federal interventions, placing Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC ...