Walls covered in mold. Dead rats floating in water tanks. Lockups without working toilets. Every month, around 30 reported rapes and an average of one prisoner killing another. Those are the ...

Alabama sold more than $190 million worth of bonds earlier this month to Regions Capital Advantage, a division of Regions ...

The speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives Thursday called for construction on a men’s prison in Escambia County to stop amid rising costs and delays in the completion of another prison in ...

Days after the contractor building Alabama’s new $1.25 billion prison missed its completion deadline, lawmakers from both parties are blaming the state for problems that have driven up costs and ...

ACIFA approved the construction contract for the second prison, but Speaker Ledbetter is calling for the governor to halt the ...

Alabama's AG candidate calls prison overcrowding criticism “hype” weeks before a federal trial over conditions inside the ...

Alabama approves the Escambia prison construction contract in a 6-1 vote, advancing the new facility in its prison plan.

John Q. Hamm, the Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner, is hanging up his badge after more than 40 years in law enforcement and four years at the head of the troubled state prison system.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed that people incarcerated within Alabama’s prisons are not receiving adequate mental healthcare — but rolled back ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - In a meeting that lasted about 10 minutes, the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority approved the issuance of a bond that is expected to complete the necessary ...