Alabama lawmakers are seeking to borrow additional money for prison construction to ensure the state can build a second 4,000 ...

Alabama is building a 4,000-bed prison in Elmore County and plans to build another 4,000-bed prison in Escambia County.

The new documentary "The Alabama Solution" uses cell phone footage to reveal shocking conditions inside Alabama prisons.

The medications “help to bridge that gap between 'I want to get clean' and getting clean," a prisons official said.

An Alabama prison inmate was fatally stabbed inside William Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson County. The ...

Ten former New York corrections employees have been indicted in the death of Robert Brooks, according to an indictment ...

He had no visible movement by about 6:21 p.m. The curtains to the execution chamber closed at 6:29 p.m. Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said afterward that the gas flowed for about 18 ...

"The Alabama Department of Corrections has now carried out four executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which has proven to be both constitutional and effective," Attorney General Marshall said in a statement ...

Directors Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman sat down at our studio in Park City to discuss their remarkable investigative documentary.

Inmates allege abuses and unlivable conditions inside these prisons. The Alabama Department of Corrections denies the claims, but the proliferation of contraband cell phones allows inmates to ...

Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman chronicle financial mismanagement, abuses of power and general inhumanities in a system allegedly designed for rehabilitation. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...