Two men were arrested on drugs and other charges after they were found on Christmas Eve near a state prison with a backpack ...

Two men are facing charges after allegedly being found near an Atmore prison with a backpack full of illegal drugs and other ...

A representative of the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) confirmed to the BBJ the department has entered a lease ...

The family of a Jefferson County man who died the day he was to be released from prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit ...

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs.

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a ...

Years of overcrowding, understaffing, and allegations of inmate abuse have culminated in a series of lawsuits and federal interventions, placing Alabama’s Department of Corrections (ADOC ...

A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections following the death ...

U.S. District Judge J. Austin Huffaker rejected a challenge to nitrogen executions from Carey Dale Grayson on Nov. 6. The ...

As the other men staggered into the storm to flag down help, they wondered: Why would the Alabama Department of Corrections place their lives in Jones’ hands? “They knew he had a propensity to ...