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 ...

according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. Agents with the ADOC’s Law Enforcement Services Division and the agency’s K9 Bureau with help from Atmore Police and the Poarch Creek Police ...

encouraged officials to develop a system that integrates municipal court violations with existing information that state has ...

ELMORE, Ala. (WSFA) - The death of an inmate at Staton Correctional Facility is under investigation, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections. ADOC officials say Jabari Jaron Young was ...

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

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 ...

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 ...