An Alabama jail captain and other jail employees have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who ...

Five medical employees at an Alabama jail have been indicted in connection with the death of a mentally ill man who died of ...

Deported under a little-known wartime law, more than 130 Venezuelans were sent from the U.S. to a maximum-security prison in ...

Last year's meeting Families of inmates describe 'horrific' conditions in Alabama prisons “Because while I was in prison, it ...

Three of the private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations. The scathing order said lawyers Matthew Reeves, ...

Advocates, experts, formerly incarcerated individuals and family members of those behind bars Wednesday described an Alabama ...

Family members of people locked away in Alabama’s prisons told lawmakers on Wednesday horror stories from parole hearings. They said the lack of parole — and the new parole guidelines — take away hope ...

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

A contract healthcare worker for the Alabama Department of Corrections was arrested Friday a drug checkpoint at a north Alabama prison. Monica Tara Bishop, 44, was taken into custody after a brief ...

Redacted FOIA documents obtained by the Arkansas Restorative Initiative, reveal drug incidents and infrastructure issues in Arkansas prisons, according to the group.