After executing more people than any other state in 2024, Alabama will carry out its first this year in early February. On ...

A security officer was arrested Friday after an alleged incident at an Alabama prison. According to the Alabama Department of ...

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

Khamya Rynea Walker, a security officer at Easterling Correctional Facility in Barbour County, is an employee of an Alabama Department of Corrections contractor.

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

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.

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

KELLY: When you have taken your reporting to the state, to the Alabama Department of Corrections, what do they say? MASON: So the Department of Corrections - they say that this work that they're ...

As the other men staggered into the storm to flag down help, they wondered: Why would the Alabama Department of Corrections ...

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 ...

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 ...