Members of the Contract Review Oversight Committee approved a two-year, $200,000 contract with Terri O. Tompkins, Esq. of ...

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 ...

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

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

Alabama’s prison system, which has been plagued with violent conditions and drug use due to understaffing and overcrowding, ...

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

I will note that one of our original six plaintiffs, Mr. Dexter Avery, sadly passed away a couple of months ago while he was in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections. So I wanted to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The supplier fired dozens of prisoners after some of them said they felt they had no choice but to take those jobs. By Talmon Joseph Smith After facing public scrutiny for the use of prison labor ...