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

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.

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

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.

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

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

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

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 ...

A Mountain Brook municipal judge told the Alabama Commission on Re-Entry Thursday that those about to be released from prison ...

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 ...