Two Birmingham-area women are under arrest by state prison officials on drug charges. A search warrant at a Hoover home on ...

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm gave state lawmakers an update Wednesday on the state’s new prison, a 4,000-bed specialty care facility for men in Elmore County. Hamm told the ...

Ministers and families reveal severe violence and conditions in Alabama prisons, urging urgent reform amid ongoing DOJ ...

For the second year, loved ones and advocates spoke before a legislative committee designed to curb violence and improve conditions within the Alabama prison system. Again, they described the inhumane ...

Family members carried photos of loved ones who have died in prison and photos of state officials with the caption “Blood On ...

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — A variety of issues were brought before lawmakers Wednesday at a Joint Prison Oversight Committee hearing in Montgomery. Advocates are calling for reforms inside and outside ...

The following is the foreword to Matthew Vernon Whalen’s new book, Bullock: Chronicles of Deprivation and Despair in an American Prison. There’s a certain kind of silence in Alabama’s prisons. It ...