The state could be allowed to hire fewer qualified corrections officers to address mental health needs in Alabama prisons ...

The Alabama Community College System Wednesday approved a $23.3 million budget for prison education. The money, allocated by ...

The court acknowledged the ADOC's suicide rate was “more than double the national average among state and federal ...

For the second year, loved ones and advocates spoke before a legislative committee designed to curb violence and improve conditions within the Alabama prison system. Again, they described the inhumane ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Chase Mathis told prison guards he was being threatened by other inmates and feared for his life. But within hours of being moved to an adjacent prison, he was dead. Mathis died ...

The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It ...

A camera crew visited an Alabama prison in 2019 to film an event. There was live music, barbecued food, and prayer. By all accounts, it seemed like a joyful day. But one inmate shared a message to the ...

Comeback Town is an opinion column exploring all things Birmingham. It is coordinated by David Sher. Today’s guest columnist ...

The Alabama Sentencing Commission said Alabama's already overcrowded prisons could see inmate populations rise by nearly a third by 2030 due to new punitive laws passed by the Legislature. The ...

The Alabama prison system functions like a modern-day plantation: overcrowded, understaffed prisons like Bullock Correctional Facility run on forced labor, violence, and deliberate neglect. In this ...

The former healthcare provider for the Alabama Department of Corrections told employees on Monday that it did not have the cash to pay them for hours worked before the company filed for bankruptcy in ...