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Last year's meeting Families of inmates describe 'horrific' conditions in Alabama prisons “Because while I was in prison, it ...
Advocates, experts, formerly incarcerated individuals and family members of those behind bars Wednesday described an Alabama ...
Families told the Joint Prison Oversight Committee on Wednesday that the hope of parole is the best incentive for good ...
Three of the private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations. The scathing order said lawyers Matthew Reeves, ...
Inmates hit each other "with bricks over a $12 drug debt that wouldn’t even exist ... if our corrections officers were not ...
An Alabama jail captain and other jail employees have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of hypothermia.
105 out of 277 deaths in Alabama state prisons in 2024 are listed as having unknown causes or are under investigation, a new report states. 72% of the homicides in Alabama prisons in 2024 were of ...
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday after being convicted in the 2010 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of 44-year-old mother Tracy Lynn Wilemon in Chilton County. James Osgood, 55 ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that she is considering sanctions against lawyers with a high-priced firm hired to defend Alabama’s prison system after ChatGPT was used ...
72% of the homicides in Alabama prisons in 2024 were of Black individuals, the study shows. The ACLU of Alabama recommends requiring autopsies for all prison deaths and more transparent reporting. The ...