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 ...

The Alabama Department of Corrections says inmates have stopped performing their duties in prisons across the state as part of a protest against living conditions inside the facilities.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alabama on Wednesday, saying unsafe and unsanitary conditions in the state's men's prisons violate the Constitution. The DOJ says Alabama's prison ...

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, ...

Alabama must rectify the dangerous conditions this week or face a Justice Department lawsuit. Critics say plans to build new prisons won't solve issues that have been found to be unconstitutional.

The complaint alleges that the conditions at Alabama’s prisons for men violate the Constitution. The department says Alabama does not provide adequate protection against prisoner-on-prisoner ...

Alabama has an average homicide rate of 32.8 per 100,000 inmates. Texas, with a prison population of more that six times the size of Alabama’s, had 10 homicides for an average rate of 2.5 per ...

Alabama’s prisons went into receivership in the late 1970s amid decrepit and overcrowded conditions. The moves forced the state government to significantly increase its prison spending.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Alabama over conditions in the state prisons, saying the state is failing to protect male inmates from inmate-on-inmate violence ...