A legislative committee Thursday approved legal contracts for the Alabama Department of Corrections involving prison ...

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

A year after they filed a federal lawsuit to end “a modern-day form of slavery,” the plaintiffs representing prisoners in ...

Alabama’s incarceration rate rose slightly between 2022 and 2023, with a 1.5 percent increase in inmates. Alabama saw a jump ...

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

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 ...

A storm was looming when the inmate serving 20 years for armed robbery was assigned to transport fellow prisoners to their ...

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.

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 ...

Derrick Bean and Keith Davis were found in a wooded area near Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore, authorities said.

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 ...