The legislation, which passed a House committee Wednesday, would require Class III cities to maintain a certain ratio of ...

John Q. Hamm, the Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner, is hanging up his badge after more than 40 years in law ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay ...

An Alabama pastor is working to extend the Oscar buzz and attention from a documentary into meaningful reform behind prison walls across the state. Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, an activist based in ...

Alabama has agreed to make changes at state prisons to accommodate inmates with disabilities. A federal judge in June gave preliminary approval to a lawsuit settlement agreement between inmates and ...

Three activists — Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...