“The Alabama Solution,” a critically acclaimed documentary about Alabama’s prison system, earned an Academy Award nomination ...

A documentary about Alabama’s prison system is in the running to win an Oscar for Best Documentary.

A groundbreaking film on Alabama’s prison system is a step closer to one of Hollywood’s highest honors. The Academy of Motion ...

A 68-year-old state prison inmate died Sunday at William Donaldson Correctional Facility. The Jefferson County Coroner’s ...

Alabama state prisons are places of violence and impunity – not because of the conduct of inmates, but allegedly of guards.

An investigation is underway after a fight inside an Alabama prison left two inmates dead, the Alabama Department of ...

Medical examiners who take a person’s organs without family consent would face 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

The settlement of a lawsuit by the Alabama Department of Corrections highlights systemic medical neglect in prisons after an ...

ELMORE (AP) — Family and advocates of people incarcerated in Alabama prisons on Thursday said they want to keep a public spotlight on problems in state lockups and said inmates are planning another ...

Researchers at Columbia University say the use of prison labor in Hyundai’s supply chain is driving down the wages of non-incarcerated workers by as much as 14%. A new study from Columbia University’s ...

You thought the Mannequin Challenge was all tapped out, but then all of a sudden, a bunch of inmates in Alabama risked (even more) prison time to shoot their own video with an unauthorized cellphone.