The Alabama Department of Corrections announced Tuesday its Law Enforcement Services Division (LESD) and its K-9 teams ...

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.

Alabama Senate passes a bill allowing $500 million more for state prison construction, raising borrowing to $1.28 billion.

A bill upping the amount the state can borrow to build a second 4,000-bed prison was approved by the Alabama Senate.

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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...